[uf-discuss] Hatom (hcard) pictures author

[Toby A Inkster]

Rafael Garc í a Lepper wrote:

> I'm using hatom to markup articles which have text and pictures with
> different authors (hcard), but I haven't found how to indicate that  
> one of
> them is for pictures. Is there a way to do this?

Three possibilities for you to consider:

1. Mark up the author of the text using hAtom and the pictures using  
figure <http://microformats.org/wiki/figure>. You should beware that  
figure is still a draft and might change in the future.

2. Use the hCard "role" property to indicate which person did which.

3. Consider RDFa - in RDFa when you say that someone is an author of  
something, you also say what they authored. A basic example would be  
something like this:

   <div id="an-article" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
     <p>Blah, blah, blah.</p>
     <img src="a-picture.jpeg" alt="...">
     <p>Blah, blah, blah.</p>
     <span about="#an-article" property="dc:creator">Alice</span>
     <span about="a-picture.jpeg" property="dc:creator">Bob</span>
   </div>

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