[uf-discuss] hCard uid

[Martin McEvoy]

Hi Stephen

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 23:16 -0400, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> Most parsers I encounter take this code (fragment from inside a
> complete hCard that I'm parsing) :
> 
> <a class="url uid" rel="me" href="http://singpolyma.net/"><span
> class="family-name">Weber</span>,
> <span class="given-name">Stephen</span>
> <span class="additional-name">Paul</span>
> </a>
> 
> and give me a value of Weber, Stephen Paul for uid - the intended
> value was definitely http://singpolyma.net/  - which is the correct
> value under the standard, and what must I do to change my code to make
> it right if my code is what's wrong ?
> 

this caused me a little concern because nothing seems to be wrong the
UID value is most definitely http://singpolyma.net/,

So a tested it for you using 6 common hcard parsers most of which use
X2V but different versions ranging from 0.8 - 0.11 here is the output:

Source: http://weborganics.co.uk/test/

<div class="vcard">
<a class="url uid" rel="me" href="http://singpolyma.net/">
<span class="fn">
<span class="family-name">Weber</span>,
<span class="given-name">Stephen</span>
<span class="additional-name">Paul</span>
</span>
</a>
</div>

http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/

BEGIN:VCARD
PRODID:-//suda.co.uk//X2V 0.11 (BETA)//EN
SOURCE:http://weborganics.co.uk/test/
NAME:Test 
VERSION:3.0
FN;CHARSET=utf-8:Weber\, Stephen Paul
UID:http://singpolyma.net/
URL:http://singpolyma.net/
END:VCARD

http://technorati.com/contacts/

BEGIN:VCARD
PRODID:-//suda.co.uk//X2V 0.8.4.1 (BETA)//EN
SOURCE:http://weborganics.co.uk/test
NAME:Test 
VERSION:3.0
N;CHARSET=UTF-8:Weber;Stephen;Paul;;
FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:Weber\, Stephen Paul
UID:http://singpolyma.net/
URL:http://singpolyma.net/
END:VCARD

http://tools.weborganics.co.uk/

BEGIN:VCARD
PRODID:-//suda.co.uk//X2V 0.9 (BETA)//EN
SOURCE:http://weborganics.co.uk/test/
NAME:Test
VERSION:3.0
FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:Weber\, Stephen Paul
UID:http://singpolyma.net/
URL:http://singpolyma.net/
END:VCARD

Tails version 0.3.8
No output but confirmed
UID:http://singpolyma.net/

Operator
BEGIN:VCARD
PRODID:-//kaply.com//Operator 0.8//EN
SOURCE:http://weborganics.co.uk/test/
NAME:Test
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:Weber, Stephen Paul
UID:http://singpolyma.net/
URL:http://singpolyma.net/
END:VCARD


AS you can see everything is as expected so this only leaves me to think
that If the parser wasn't one of the above maybe its the parser that has
the problem and not you.

Thanks

Martin McEvoy