[uf-discuss] Coding mbox_sha1sum in XFN

[Martin McEvoy]

Hello Julian, Toby

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:48 +0100, Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Julian Bond wrote:
> 
> > I want to be able to say something like:-
> > This person with this profile page URL and this mbox_sha1sum is one
> of
> > my contacts.
> >
> > But I'm not sure how to do it in XFN. Where can I put mbox_sha1sum  
> > into
> > <a href="url" rel="contact>their name</a>
> 
> For the href attribute, you could use a (non-standard, but
> frequently  
> used[1]) SHA1 URN:
> 
>         <a href="urn:sha1:052f384479559f1b4854756bdce69d1c658de3b3"
>         rel="contact">Their Name</a>

There Is no real way to do this in Microformats (as far as I know) but
there has been some work on hashes[1] and digital signatures[2], you are
maybe even asking the wrong community, and you should maybe ask the
RDFa[3] community as what you are asking is possible in RDFa:

<a property="foaf:sha1sum" href="mailto:their at name.com" rel="contact"
content="052f384479559f1b4854756bdce69d1c658de3b3">Their Name</a>



[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hash-examples
[2] http://microformats.org/wiki/digital-signatures
[3] http://rdfa.info/wiki/RDFa_Wiki


Thanks

Martin McEvoy