On 11/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ryan King</b> <<a href="mailto:ryan@technorati.com">ryan@technorati.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:09 PM, David Osolkowski wrote:<br><br>I don't believe the question was misread. Tantek's point was that<br>there's no need for a microformat, we already have it covered with URIs.</blockquote><div><br>
Well, the OP agreed with my interpretation, but I was also roughly
suggesting that we already have URIs to handle the concept of an
identifier. Basically, I'm agreeing with Tantek.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So, you're saying URIs are only useful when they're URIs?</blockquote><div><br>
The alternative would be a URI that isn't a URI... what would that be?<br>
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<div>Given a page containing the string "qwerty123", the OP would like a way to mark up "qwerty123" as being an identifier. <br>
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I'll refactor my point for clarity: An identifier isn't useful if you
can't determine what is being identified. I suggest that creating
arbitrary identifier schemes/namespaces is not a great idea, and one
should consider using a URL or existing URI scheme/namespace whenever
possible.<br>
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Second, I would suggest that given an identifier whose format is
documented (and thus, an identifier where one can determine what is
being identified), a good way to mark it up would be using a href="".<br>
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Also, C. Hudley suggested that class="url" in hCard is redundant; I'm
guessing that class is needed so that authors can provide links for
other elements in the hCard that wouldn't necessarily be the URL for
the person identified in the card. For example, you could put a
tel:// link around their phone number. And I would guess that a
good ID for a flickr photo would be its URL.<br>
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- David<br>
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