Hi XFN Mates,<br><br>As per my understanding of XFN, I feel, it allows
the owner of the blog to link to his/her friend's blog. Probably,
that's what XFN stands for too. It seems to be a manual task. And, also
not full-proof. My reasons are mentioned below.<br>
<br>There are three things which I see, in concern to XFN, they are - a
blog, blog posts, and a blog roll. As far as my understanding has
developed over years, a blog is a container for blog posts, and blog
roll. On the blog, the user links to his/her friend's blog via blog
roll, but might also link to his/her friend's specific blog post, in
his/her own blog post.<br>
<br>We add XFN to the blog roll, and NOT to the blog post, of course we can! (Refer: <a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/faq" target="_blank">http://gmpg.org/xfn/faq</a>).
But, if we seriously want the Friends Network to be strong enough,
then, I see, a need for a tool which shall detect the user's friends
URL (as matching against the ones at the blog roll), from the user's
blog posts, and recommend the user to update those links, and add XFN
accordingly. The user, then, has a choice to, add XFN to those links
too, of which there are higher chances that those links go unnoticed. <br>
<br><b>The key idea is to recommend the user (that XFN is applicable,
and useful) of/to any link that he/she is making to his/her friend's
blog post.</b> Probably, using which, similar blog posts could be
identified, from a friend's group, and they might be able to
collaborate, in a better way. Adding the true sense, to the XHTML
Friends Network (XFN).<br clear="all"><br>Cross posted at <strong style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss"><strong>microformats-discuss</strong></a> mailing list.</strong><br>
<br>-- <br>Ankit Dangi