Revision as of 14:58, 20 March 2008

Profile URIs

In hcalendar-issues, it is ACCEPTED that each microformat should have a profile URI, like the XFN profile.

Some issues include:

what domain to use? Candidates include:
- microformats.org
- www.w3.org
- xmdp.org
what about versioning? How to keep in sync with the wiki and test materials?
what profile URI to use for combinations, such as hcard and hcalendar?
- note HTML4.01 states "that one or more meta data profiles, [are] separated by white space"; though it's simpler for authors if they can just use one profile URI.
More profiles are needed.

One proposal is: use www.w3.org, following W3C namespace policy. As to versioning, change the profile whenever the wiki changes (within some reasonable latency, say, a couple weeks or a month). For example: an hCard Profile at w3.org, and discussion: an hCard profile that seems to work with GRDDL.

<head profile="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard">

However, this is valid according to the W3C HTML validator.

@@ Line 18: / Line 18: @@
 ==Existing profile URIs==
-*[[hcard|hcard]] = http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard
+*[[hcard|hcard]] = http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard '''or''' http://purl.org/uF/hCard/1.0/
 *[[hresume|hResume]] = http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume-profile
 *[[xfn|XFN]] = http://gmpg.org/xfn/11
+*[[hAtom]] = http://purl.org/uF/hAtom/0.1/
+*[[hCalendar]] = http://purl.org/uF/hCalendar/1.0/
 *...