[uf-new] Multi-paged XFN

Drew McLellan lists at allinthehead.com
Wed Mar 12 12:21:52 PST 2008


On 12 Mar 2008, at 15:58, David Janes wrote:

> I'm just tossing an idea out for discussion (and to get it out of my  
> head).
>
> I've been looking recently at XFN as it's used "in the wild" as a
> method of social network portability, or as Chris has probably more
> correctly relabeled it, "portable contact lists" [1]. In several
> cases, for example here [2]. Obviously this is a requirement to make
> this _human usable_ but unfortunately without further assistance an
> XFN parser is only going to get a fraction of the contact list. Not
> good.
>
> HTML has rel= elements for paging through data: rel, next, index,
> start and contents [3].
>
> My thoughts:
> - has something already been done and I'm missing it (if so: end here
> ;-) otherwise

Glenn Jones has already done quite a bit of thinking and work around  
this:
http://www.glennjones.net/Post/830/BacknetworkLabXFNpagination.htm

drew.


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