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A number of sites publish a "statement of principles" or a "code of ethics" that governs the behaviour of the author(s) of that site.  This page is for discussion of a possible microformat for publishing links to those statements.
A number of sites publish a "statement of principles" or a "code of ethics" that governs the behaviour of the author(s) of that site.  This page is for discussion of a possible microformat for publishing links to those statements.


Below is an initial pass at a specification for these links.
See [[rel-principles]] for an initial draft for the specification.


=rel-principles specification=
Add issues to [[rel-principles-issues]].
 
rel-principles is a simple, open format for indicating statements of principles for the associated content, which is embeddable in HTML or XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML.
 
==Abstract==
 
By adding <code>rel=”principles”</code> to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is a description of the principles the content on the page was created under.
 
    <a href="http://www.mediastandardstrust.org/code-of-practice" rel="principles">some statement
    of principles name goes here</a>
 
==XMDP Profile==
<pre>
    <dl class="profile">
    <dt id="rel">rel</dt>
    <dd><p>
      <a rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel">
        HTML4 definition of the 'rel' attribute.</a>
        Here is an additional value.</p>
      <dl>
      <dt id="principles">statement of principles</dt>
      <dd>Indicates that the referred resource is a statement of principles for the content on the referring page.</dd>
      </dl>
    </dd>
    </dl>
</pre>

Latest revision as of 00:23, 22 January 2010

A number of sites publish a "statement of principles" or a "code of ethics" that governs the behaviour of the author(s) of that site. This page is for discussion of a possible microformat for publishing links to those statements.

See rel-principles for an initial draft for the specification.

Add issues to rel-principles-issues.

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