On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're right, rel=me requires symmetry in order to be trusted at all. For this reason, and others XFN is not the simplest way to do Authoritative hCards.
I guess the real question is, "who will be creating the partial hCards that will be referring to the authoritative hCard?" If the answer is, "the owner of the authoritative hCard" then the scenario is manageable and the owner can update the authoritative hCard at their leisure to reflect the partial ones created. However, if the answer is, "anyone" then the spec is impossible to support because the author of the authoritative hCard has absolutely no way of tracking all of the partial cards referring to the authoritative one. A prime example is if you're a speaker at a conf. and the organizers put together a simple hCard with your name in it and point to your authoritative hCard. Worse still, if a phone directory site marks up their results with hCard, how would you ever know to link to it? Which page would you link to (as results tend to have multiple views). The worst part of either scenario is the idea that your authoritative hCard will keep growing with all this unsightly references to lesser cards. It's a maintenance and aesthetic nightmare. I say we should find a better way of doing this. A. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
