In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Does anyone have any thoughts on using xfn (or some variant thereof)
>to add machine-readable relationships to published biographies? Or in
>general, to express the relationships that exist within the network of
>people associated with an archive of published writing?
Yes; this has been discussed in relation to genealogy on wiki:
<http://microformats.org/wiki/genealogy>
and mailing list.
> A specific example is the link from
>http://www.nmm.ac.uk/flinders/ListPeople.cfm?ID=41
>to http://www.nmm.ac.uk/flinders/ListPeople.cfm?ID=96 (near the end of
>the biography) where I could potentially mark that Ann is the daughter
>of Matthew.
Presently; you can't. You can only express that she is his child,
because XFN (like hCard, which you might also use to convey data about
Ann and Matthew) has no expressions of gender.
See also:
<http://microformats.org/wiki/gender>
--
Andy Mabbett
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