profile-uris

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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.

Existing profile URIs

Combined Profile

The following URL covers all non-draft Microformats as of March 2008, except XMDP and XOXO. You can mix and match it with other XMDP profiles for new/draft microformats.

http://purl.org/uF/2008/03/

Individual Microformats

adr
(Use an hCard profile.)
(Or use the combined profile.)
geo
http://purl.org/uF/geo/0.9/
(Or use an hCard profile.)
(Or use the combined profile.)
hAtom
http://purl.org/uF/hAtom/0.1/
hAudio
http://purl.org/uF/hAudio/0.9/
hCalendar
http://purl.org/uF/hCalendar/1.0/
http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/hcal ¶†
http://dannyayers.com/microformats/hcalendar-profile
(Or use the combined profile.)
hCard
http://purl.org/uF/hCard/1.0/
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard
(Or use the combined profile.)
hResume
http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume-profile
rel-license
http://purl.org/uF/rel-license/1.0/
(Or use the combined profile.)
rel-nofollow
http://purl.org/uF/rel-nofollow/1.0/
(Or use the combined profile.)
rel-tag
http://purl.org/uF/rel-tag/1.0/
(Or use the combined profile.)
VoteLinks
http://purl.org/uF/VoteLinks/1.0/
http://tommorris.org/profiles/votelinks ¶†
(Or use the combined profile.)
XFN
http://gmpg.org/xfn/11
(Or use the combined profile.)
xFolk
http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk-profile
XOXO
(Use the combined profile.)

† = GRDDL-enabled.
¶ = non-XMDP profile.

Other Interesting Profile URIs

Validator warning

Due to inconsistent wording of the HTML specs, HTMLTidy (and other tools?) give "Warning: <head> escaping malformed URI reference" when more than one profile is used, e.g.

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

W3C HTML validator has very poor validation of attributes and is technically unable to check this case. The HTML DTD however defines profile attribute as %URI (it's an alias for CDATA), same as <a href> attribute.

See also