[uf-discuss] permalinks for microformat chunks of pages: use the 'id' attribute on root microformat elements

[Jeremy Keith]

Tantek wrote:
> Not that it is ambiguous at all in this case, but in general using  
> rel-tag
> tags/categories provides a much better specificity, and provides a  
> nice UI
> hook for what did the author *mean* by Brighton? (Imagine  
> distinguishing
> Paris, France vs. Paris, Texas for example).  And in this case, it  
> wouldn't
> hurt to mark it up as the locality as well.
>
> <div class="vcard">
>   <span class="fn">Jeremy Keith</span>  in
>   <span class="adr">
>    <a class="category locality" rel="tag"
>       href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton">Brighton</a>
>   </span>
> </div>

That looks a good solution. Leaving aside the reltag, the category  
solution could still be used with a unique identifier for the document:

<div class="vcard">
   <span class="fn">Jeremy Keith</span>  in
   <span class="adr">
    <a class="category locality" href="#brighton">Brighton</a>
   </span>
</div>

Here, the category is pointing to a part of the current document that  
has been uniquely identified with id = "brighton". This wouldn't be a  
good candidate for a reltag (it would create a circular reference),  
but it would solve the problem of grouping together many hcards into  
different groups on a single document... thereby paving the way for  
parsers to extract just the hcards for people in a particular category.

Bye,

Jeremy

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Jeremy Keith

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