There’s a lot of focus on full-blown web services and complete XML documents. That’s great. It’s given us a lot of tools to work with and made the loose coupling of systems much easier. But, that’s not the only move toward making the data on the web more easily accessible to computers to understand and manipulate.

Microformats have been making a name for themselves, providing a standard way to embed small bits of structured data into web pages. The most common ones are the hCalendar and hCard formats, which embed appointment/event information and contact information into sites in standardized ways.

Enter this PHP-based microformat parser. It takes care of grabbing this data out of pages for you and currently includes the following formats: hCalendar, hCard, hReview and relElement. Bonus points for being BSD licensed.