[uf-discuss] Re: What social networking sites uses XFN to expressrelationships and makes the XFN data visible so that it canbe screen-scraped?

[Costello, Roger L.]

Hi Scott,

I have a blog account on WordPress.com

When I add an individual to my blogroll the user interface on
WordPress.com gives me the ability to designate the individual as
friend, co-worker, etc (all the XFN values).

After adding the individual I see a web page containing the link to the
new individual.  But when I do View Page Source on that web page I do
not see the XFN stuff on the link.  For example, here is a link on my
blogroll:

<a href='http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/' title='Visit Adam
Bosworth&#8217;s Weblog'>adambosworth.wordpress.com</a>

Notice that there is no rel="..." on the link.

Also, I noticed on the wiki page [1] this tidbit about WordPress: "An
open-source Weblogging package that offers XFN annotation of its
internally-stored list of links."

Notice the phrase: "internally-stored"

So, between my own experience on WordPress.com, and this wiki tidbit I
have come to the conclusion that the XFN information is not visible.

But I hope to be proven wrong!

/Roger

http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/tools


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[mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of
Edward O'Connor
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 1:46 PM
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Subject: [uf-discuss] Re: What social networking sites uses XFN to
expressrelationships and makes the XFN data visible so that it canbe
screen-scraped?

Hi Roger,

> Apparently WordPress uses XFN to express relationship information,
but
> the XFN data is not visible.

I'm not sure what this could mean. If you mean, by visible:

> I want to be able to do View Page Source and see the rel="..." on the
> link.

then WordPress does indeed make its XFN data visible. In fact, there's
no other way to use XFN.

Have I misunderstood your question?

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