[uf-discuss] rel-tag @title attribute

[Mark Pilgrim]

On 1/11/06, David Osolkowski <qidydl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nitpickery: you forgot the rel="tag" in your rel-tags.

Doh.

> >From the rel-tag microformats page:
>
> The linked page SHOULD exist, and it is the linked page, rather than
> the link text, that defines the tag. The last path component of the
> URL is the text of the tag, so
>
> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">fish</a>
>
> would indicate the tag "tech" rather than "fish".

OK, that answers my question.  The last path segment of the @href is
the tag's "term"; the part of the @href before the last path segment
is the tag's "scheme"; the child text is the tag's "label".

Nit: the rel-tag specification should probably say "last path segment
of the URL" instead of "last component of the URL", to match the
terminology of RFC 3986, section 3.3: "A path consists of a sequence
of path segments separated by a slash ("/") character."  This would
also make it clear that tags can't be given in query parameters or
fragment identifiers.  (I don't have a problem with this restriction,
but the language tripped me up until I dug far enough into the
relevant RFCs.)

I'd be happy to make this change on the wiki if there are no objections.

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Cheers,
-Mark