[uf-discuss] hCard URL for page being visited

Benjamin West bewest at gmail.com
Sat Oct 21 11:42:18 PDT 2006


Isn't <address> supposed to contain contact information for the page itself?

On 10/21/06, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> I seem to remember mentioning this before, but can't find where I did
> so, nor any responses.
>
> It seems to me that there should be some way to say that the URL of an
> hCard or hCalendar event is the URL of the page itself, without having
> to include a redundant, and accessibility-damaging link to that page, on
> the page itself.
>
> Or has anyone already devised a way to do this?
>
>
> The URL of the visited page can be available, in a Dublin Core metadata
> header, thus:
>
>         <meta name="DC.identifier" scheme="DCTERMS.URI" content="[URL]">
>
> or could be auto-discovered by a parsing agent.
>
>
> One solution might be to have, say:
>
>         <span class="vcard selfurl">
>
> were the latter class value declares that the URL of the visited page is
> to be included.
>
> (I'll put this on the relevant issue pages on the 'wiki')
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
>                 Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards:  <http://www.no2id.net/>
>
>                 Free Our Data:  <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk>
> _______________________________________________
> microformats-discuss mailing list
> microformats-discuss at microformats.org
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
>


More information about the microformats-discuss mailing list