[microformats-discuss] Discovery of microformats

Danny Ayers danny.ayers at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 13:00:54 PDT 2005


On 7/12/05, Bud Gibson <bud at thecommunityengine.com> wrote:
> I for one would like to reinforce that the profile mechanism is a
> good one and should be used more often.

Absolutely. It's the only way (so far) the data can be unambiguously
extracted, e.g. using GRDDL:
http://people.w3.org/~dom/archives/2005/05/grddl-specification-updated/
 
Perhaps we need to
> consider a use of the anchor <a> or some other element, i.e.,
> 
> <a href="profile.url" rel="profile">profile for microformat z</a>
> 
> contained in the inserted text.

What about <link  href="profile.url" rel="profile">? - it might be a
little less disruptive to regular rendering.

Cheers,
Danny.

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