On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Jon Gibbins (dotjay) wrote:
I've been looking into generating unique references for entries
that can be used in the id attribute for an hAtom implementation.
Does anyone actually have a solution for this?
I've been using something along the lines of:
tag:example.org:2007-06-21:title-of-the-entry
It's valid HTML, but not a proper tag URI as far as I can tell from
RFC 4151. Would it be worth coming up with a microformat standard
for people to follow that is valid HTML, using [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_:
\.-]? Tag URIs don't work and neither do permalinks? Is there
another standard we can use?
Incidentally, from the microformats wiki:
"the syntax of tag URIs and html id attributes are incompatible.
HTML disallows forward-slash (/) in ids [1] (http://www.w3.org/TR/
html401/types.html#type-name), while tag URIs require them"
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom-issues#Entry_id_.28atom:id.29
I'm too afraid of getting shouted at to go and edit the wiki, but
this doesn't sound right to me? Forward slashes aren't *required*
by the tag URI specification as far as I can see, but commas *are*
required and not permitted in HTML:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-name
It still renders tag URIs inappropriate, but I think the details
are wrong and might want correcting.
I believe I wrote that section. If you think it's wrong, please add a
correction after it.
Thanks,
ryan
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