Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

[Ryan King]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 12:00 PM, David Janes wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Ben Ward <lists at ben-ward.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 8 Feb 2007, at 19:02, David Janes wrote:
>> > On 2/8/07, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
>> >> Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/.
>> >>
>> >> -ryan
>> >
>> > But that's the authoritative hCard. […]
>> >
>>
>>
>> > Sorry if this sounds pedantic, I'm not trying to be. There's some
>> > assumption in what you're saying that I'm not getting.
>>
>> The difference in interpretation is this: You're looking to describe
>> the *one true hcard*, to rule them all, bind them in the darkness and
>> so on and so forth.
>
> No no no. I'm looking for the set of rules a consumer has to follow to
> get from Ryan's hCard on microformats.org to his authoritative hCard
> at *the*ryanking/contact.

The algorithm is simple and recursive:

1. if uid != url you're done
2. if url == uid and there's an hCard at that url, recurse with the  
new hCard

-ryan
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Ryan King
ryan at technorati.com