<div>On reading the <a href="http://www.microformats.org/wiki/reltag">specification</a> to things jump out as unclear. Here is a modified version of the example from the spec:</div>
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<div> <a href="<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" target="_blank">http://technorati.com/tag/tech</a>" rel="tag">apple</a></div>
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<div>According to the spec, the actual tag is determined by parsing the URL. In the case it would be "tech" and not "apple." This seems to me to lead to several problems:</div>
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<li>Some tagging systems support spaces. How would spaces be supported in this case? My assumption is through replacing spaces with "+", but this is not explicitly stated.
<li>URLs are not the most convenient encoding for non-English languages
<li>Their is no guarantee that the apparent tag (the one displayed to the user) and the real tag are the same. This defeats the peer pressure that is intended.
<li>No guidance is given as to whether or not having different link text and tag value is considered bad form.</li></li></li></li></ul>
<div>Have these things been addressed and are just not mentioned in the wiki or am I just not getting it?</div>
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<div>Craig<span class="sg"></span></div>