Padraic Brady has officially proposed a new component for the Zend Framework - one to handle the various microformat methods that have been gaining in popularity.

I've proposed Zend_Microformat on the ZF Proposal Wiki at Zend_Microformat - Padraic Brady. I've also started a proposal page for Zend_Microformat_Xfn.

He briefly explains what they are ("a collection of data encodings") and an example of their use (like the XHTML Friends Network to link social network users). You can find out more about them here.