On 8/11/06, Jim Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One thing I noticed on the examples I was looking at and posted (aside from almost zero semantic markup) was that member lists often exist in a location separate from the main "group" page. frequently, with long lists of members, the member lists can be spread across multiple pages, often with different URIs then the original group page.
This is where you have to look at what the representation of the group's URI is... which goes to the concept of authority in microformats -- The One True Issue. Heh. I'm so clever. But anyway, the concept of XFN resides on the notion that everyone you know has some kind of URI -- typically in the form of a URL. (this is why OpenID and XFN are best buddies). So if the group has a URL, then we can do some *things* to show relationships... on a member's blog they might do this to express membership: <a href="http://mygroupliveshere.com"; rev="founder moderator member">Joe Bob</a> At mygroupliveshere.com you might see a member listing, reciprocating the relationship (a weak claim): <ul class="xoxo"> <li><a href="http://mulettesgalore.com"; rel="founder moderator member">Joe Bob</a></li> </ul> Now, that's how XFN plays a role. You might be able to use something on the group homepage like hAtom to contain an hcard to denote the group name and description... And in within the hcard entry, you could list the members using XFN. How you'd handle paginated member lists, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that you could stem the URL so that all XFN members under a certain URL stem could be presumed to be members, like on Flickr: http://flickr.com/groups/microformats/members or Ma.gnolia: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/microformats/people Just some extemporaneous brainstorming. Chris -- Chris Messina Agent Provocateur, Citizen Agency & Open Source Ambassador-at-Large Work: http://citizenagency.com Blog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog Cell: 412 225-1051 Skype: factoryjoe This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
