[uf-discuss] UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritative hCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

[Ryan King]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:23 PM, David Janes wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
>
>> So as I understand that, the rules for getting the most authoritative
>> hCard for a given URL are:
>>
>> 1) parse hCard at current URL
>> 2) If the hCard includes <a class="uid url">, load the URL in the
>> href, and return to step 1.
>>
>> When the consumer gets to http://theryanking.com/blog/contact/#vcard
>> and finds no <a class="uid url">, it stops there and that's his
>> authoritative hCard.
>
> OK (and I'm not trying to turn into Andy here), but doesn't this feel
> at least a little unsatisfactory? That the authoritative hCard is the
> one that _doesn't_ have a UID, i.e. potentially has less information
> than a fragment hCard?!

I just thought of another base case in the recursive algorithm

if the uid of the current hcard equals that of the previous, you're  
done.

> I'm not killer against the idea or anything, but at least I think that
> should be brought up.

I agree, what I'm proposing does less than what you proposed. But, I  
think we need to solve this simpler problem first.

> Here's one potential usage snag:
> - I copy the hCard at http://theryanking.com/blog/contact/#vcard to my
> "address book"
> - I use it somewhere (to refer to Ryan King)
> - It doesn't have a UID, so there's no tracing it back to source

Sure, that would be unfortunate, but with the addition of the second  
base case (see above) it would be solved.

-ryan
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