[uf-discuss] Next/Prev [was Rationale for providing hAtom instead of Atom/RSS feeds]

Thu May 29 05:01:33 PDT 2008

Two example pages:

  <html>
    <title>Page 1</title>
    <link rel="next" rev="prev" href="page-2">
    <body>
      <div class="hentry">
        <h1 class="entry-title">Entry 1</h1>
        <p class="entry-content">Content.</p>
      </div>
    </body>
  </html>

  <html>
    <title>Page 2</title>
    <link rel="prev" rev="next" href="page-1">
    <body>
      <div class="hentry">
        <h1 class="entry-title">Entry 2</h1>
        <p class="entry-content">Content.</p>
      </div>
    </body>
  </html>

As I understand the semantics of next/prev, they indicate links to
separate resources - not a continuation of the current resource. i.e.
These pages represent two separate feeds, each of which contains a single
entry.

The reason some XFN parsers will recurse to rel="me next" and rel="me
prev" links is not the next/prev relations, but rel="me" -- they can
spider rel="me" links (presumably constrained to a particular depth limit)
and consolidate the information into a single unified profile.

-Toby