Publishing Events with hCalendar

Similar to hCard, the hCalendar (hCal for short) microformat is based on the iCalendar Internet calendaring standard, and can be used to publish event information in a manner that users can easily copy or subscribe to using an hCalendar-to-iCalendar proxy service:

<divclass="vevent">
 <div class="summary">O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference</div>
 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20050306">Mar 6</abbr>-
 <abbr class="dtend" title="20050310">9, 2006</abbr>
 <div class="location">Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA</div>
 <a class="url" href="http://events.oreilly.com/pub/e/403">Permalink</a>
</div>

Note the use of the abbr element to present an abbreviated human-readable date and represent a precise machine-readable ISO 8601 date in the title attribute. For a complete list of hCalendar class names, more hCalendar details, and hCalendar proxy services, see the hCalendar specification at http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar.

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