principles-brainstorming

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.

1. rel-principles specification

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.

1. 1. Abstract

By adding rel=”principles” 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>

1. 1. XMDP Profile

    <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>