For this transclusion stuff, there are two promising projects that I think we should all look at...
First is PopupPoliticians, which uses the rel-tag to pull up remote information about politicians: http://sunlightlabs.com/popuppoliticians/ The second is a new and very excellent WordPress plugin that captures onclick events to dynamically repopulate divs on a page: http://www.giannim.com/blog/index.php?page_id=13 These two things show the promise of getting remote content into a page... either from the current domain or a remote one. Being able to do something similar with group membership (i.e. I link to someone else from a Group page and use something like rev="directory" or rev="member" to identify that relationship and then to pull in remote info about that member). Anyway -- the rev stuff is certainly interesting... real implementations would be pretty cool to see! Chris On 7/30/06, Danny Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm afraid I've missed discussions around rel-directory [1], but was prompted to take a look after stumbling over an OPML distributed directories tutorial [2], wondering how best to do this using microformats. OPML uses an attribute called "inclusion" to say that a remote hierarchical dir is a sub dir of the local element. It's a neat idea, essentially Gopher on top of HTTP+XML. But given the linking capablitities of HTML, the OPML is redundant, as long as there is a way of expressing "inclusion". rel-directory would appear to be in the frame for an alternative based on existing standards, only it's directed the opposite way : rel="directory" indicates that the referenced resource is a directory which does or should contain the current page But HTML to the rescue, how about: rev="directory" indicates that the current element is a directory element which contains the referenced resource Does that make sense? The most obvious application of this would be in XOXO documents, along the lines of the distributed dir idea. A potentially cool demo application might be to transclude [3] any remote page, stripped down to hierarchy+ labelled links. If this was done to one level of transclusion, and the links in the remote page rewritten to something like http://mydir.org/tree?remote=http://thatpage.com/stuff so they could be fed through the tree-browser, the demo could reveal the current web as a "World Outline". Anyone got a bit of Ajax time on their hands? Cheers, Danny. [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-directory [2] http://hosting.opml.org/amyloo/osite/help/howtos/distdir.htm [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion -- http://dannyayers.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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