[uf-discuss] Microformat for linking to XML source (to replace the Structured Blogging plugin's embedding method)

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

On 1/18/06, Phillip Pearson <pp at myelin.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The Structured Blogging plugins currently publish the XML source for
> structured posts inside a <script> block after the HTML for the post.
> I'm going to change this sometime soon so that we don't need to use
> <script> tags, which seem to cause trouble for a lot of people.
>
> The plan is to move the XML off to a separate URL and link to it from
> the post.  This would stop the validators (W3C and feedvalidator) from
> complaining, while still letting us do stuff like:
>
> - send structured posts over blogging APIs and through aggregators and
> reblogging tools without losing the connection to the source XML
>
> - make the structured data available to search engines and GRDDL/RDF
> crawlers (as long as we drop a url in html/head/@profile).
>
> I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts as to the nicest way of
> linking a post with its XML source.  My current thought is something
> along the lines of:
>
>     <div class="structured_post" id="sb_post_42">
>         (structured post goes here)
>         <a href="/path/to/xml" rel="xml_source" title="XML source for
> this post">XML source</a>
>     </div>
>
> Anyone know of any prior art?

This is kind of like those RSS buttons that you see everywhere (that
link to RSS.. which is XML).  For example, stuff like:

    <a href="/feed/rss"><img src="/image/rss.png" alt="RSS" /></a>

With semanitcs, I guess this would be:

    <a rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
href="/feed/rss"><img src="/image/rss.png" alt="RSS" /></a>



See ya


> For reference, what we're doing at the moment (with some elements &
> attributes stripped out) is:
>
> <div id="sb_post_42">
>     (structured post goes here)
> </div>
> <script langauge="x-subnode">
>     <subnode alternate-for-id="sb_post_42">
>        (xml source goes here)
>     </subnode>
> </script>
>



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