[microformats-discuss] url canonicalization

[David Janes -- BlogMatrix]

This is pretty tied up in the issue of creating a weblog microformat. In 
  particular, creating (if necessary and if possible) an equivalence 
between RSS/Atom/Feed entries and entries within the HTML wevkig, which 
of course can be summaries/teasers, complete, on the main page, or in 
multiple different archives, and so forth.

Regards, etc...
David Janes
http://www.blogmatrix.com

Kevin Marks wrote:
> 
> On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:34:37 +0200, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> http://username.livejournal.com/
>>> http://livejournal.com/~username/
>>> http://livejournal.com/users/username/
>>>
>>> Perhaps there is a case for using a microformat for declaring one of  
>>> these as canonical. It doesn't seem to me that rel="canonical" or  
>>> rel="self" will cover this.
>>
>>
>> rel="alternate"? It's in the HTML 4 spec so you don't have to write 
>> up  a microformat. :o)
>>
> 
> Alternate is fine, except it doesn't indicate which should be  
> considered the preferred one, and is also combined with other  
> indicators (eg lang)
> 
> Expressing which is the canonical link alternative is useful.
> 
> Possibly related is this discussion on translations from January:
> 
> http://epeus.blogspot.com/ 2005_01_01_epeus_archive.html#110513233021128637
> 
> There the notion of rel="original" and rel="translation" was mooted.
> 
> I think the notion of "canonical" is distinct from this.
> 
> The other possibly-related term is rel="bookmark" which indicates which  
> link to preserve for later reference (used for blog permalinks among  
> other things).
> 
> 
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