[microformats-discuss] Ambiguities in reltag specification

[Kevin Marks]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 1:02 PM, Craig Ogg wrote:

> On reading the specification to things jump out as unclear.  Here is a 
> modified version of the example from the spec:
>  
>      <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">apple</a>
>  
> 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:
> 	• 	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.

Either '+' or %20 is legitimate - the Technorati spider supports plain 
spaces in the url too, but this is a Postel's law implementation, not 
recommended behaviour.

> 	• 	URLs are not the most convenient encoding for non-English languages

Encoding non-english languages in URLs is clearly specified in RFC 
3986. I've updated the spec to clarify this - thanks for the feedback. 
(tip - the technorati tags pages will show you the right URL for any 
unicode you type in)