[uf-discuss] Re: XFN + hCard

[David Janes]

Thank you. As with many things I've noticed with Microformats though,
it's probably that we figure out the clever stuff and write it down
because it's not likely people not involved will do so! Anyway, I'll
leave it at that. It's in the Google search results now ;-)

Regards, etc...

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> David Janes wrote:
>
>  > But I'm seeing this in a lot of places in this sort of context:
>  >
>  > <div (per user)>
>  >   <img src="... the user's picture ..." /> <a href="...
>  >   rel="contact">David Janes</a> (dpjanes)
>  > </div>
>  >
>  > And various variations. Obviously this is ripe for hCardization, but is
>  > there a defined relationship between a XFN A within a hCard. Should
>  > there be?
>
>  Under the existing semantics of hCard and XFN, this:
>
>         <a rel="friend" href="http://dave.example.com">Dave</a>
>
>  means "the owner of <http://dave.example.com> is my friend", and this:
>
>         <span class="vcard">
>           <a class="fn url" href="http://dave.example.com">Dave</a>
>         </span>
>
>  means "Dave is a contact; Dave owns <http://dave.example.com>". So if we
>  combine those, without adding any additional semantics, then this:
>
>         <span class="vcard">
>           <a class="fn url" rel="friend"
>           href="http://dave.example.com">Dave</a>
>         </span>
>
>  means "Dave is a contact; Dave owns <http://dave.example.com>; the owner
>  of <http://dave.example.com> is my friend", which is pretty much what you
>  want to express, right?
>
>  So I don't see why we need to add anything to either spec to cover this
>  situation, because the semantics follow automatically from each spec
>  considered individually.
>
>  What we *should* add to the next version of XFN is rel="fiend", to keep
>  people on their toes.
>
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