On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Paul Denning wrote:
At 04:29 PM 2006-09-19, Ryan King wrote:
Sounds like a use case for URIs [1]
Life would be better if URI's were used in more places.
I do not want to invent a new URI Scheme (bad idea per W3C TAG [1]).
[1] http://tinyurl.com/roao2
and/or UIDs [2].
It also sounds like a very specific use case.
I disagree. Employee numbers are used by many many companies. I
am talking about standardizing (in the microformats sense) how HTML
is marked up to indicate that a string on the page is an employee
number.
What I do with that string is a specific use case, perhaps.
Employee numbers are "for a specific problem domain" as stated in
the definition of microformats. [0]
Maybe if there was a standard way to find the employee number, some
generic tools would be developed to do things that use the employee
number.
I completely agree that if we had a standard way to mark up employee
numbers, companies (enterprises, even) could build nice, loosely
coupled tools.
However, that doesn't get around the point that microformats are
build around existing practices. I was just asking you to build some
existing practice of your own first.
-ryan
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