On 31 Jan 2007, at 17:24, Ara Pehlivanian wrote:
Ben,
Don't you think he has a point though? If you think of it, rel="me"
could suffice in that it refers to yourself at another URL (in line
with the idea of an authoritative hCard) and once you get there and
read that hCard and discover that it doesn't contain a rel="me", you
know you're at the authoritative card. In that sense, why add "self"?
Or am I now missing something?
The authoratitive hcard will also contain @rel="me". Firstly, to
fulfil XFN it must link back to the linking resource and as a full
hCard it will still contain URLs with @rel="me" pointing to the other
sites I own.
@rel=me indicates that the URL on the end of it belongs to the same
person
@rel=self is adopted from the definition of self in Atom. Quoting
John Allsopp: The "definition" of the self attribute value in Atom is
"self: the feed itself".
My understanding therefore, is that @rel=me indicates that it is the
same person. @rel=self indicates that it is the same hcard. Therefore
the absolute authoritative hcard we speak of may (I expect will)
contain other links with @rel=me but will not contain a link with
@rel=self.
Ben
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