I did some experiments a while back which you may find interesting. It's a XFN parser which can spider pages following rel=next.
http://lab.backnetwork.com/xfnpagination/ One of the more basic issues when using the web as an API is finding a method to interact with data split across multiple pages. We need a way of identifying additional information which is part of the current dataset, but on secondary pages. The rel attribute provides a practical standards based solution, which can be used to mark-up the next page in a series. We can do this with rel=me rel=next. Personal I think that microformats parser should support Url fragment. So you can mark-up groups of information and provide pagination in context of a page fragment. http://twitter.com/glennjones/#friends http://twitter.com/glennjones/#posts Targeting the second page of posts could look something like <a href="http://twitter.com/glennjones/2/#posts" rel="next">Next</a> Glenn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Janes Sent: 28 May 2008 18:46 To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Rationale for providing hAtom instead of Atom/RSSfeeds There's documented XFN examples of next/prev here [1] though I'm not sure what to make of the "officialness" of it. It would be cool this was formally documented in a way that could be used across microformats, though as Scott says in the -new mailing list. Regards, etc... David [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-xfn-supporting-friends-lists#Implement_hCard_XFN_supporting_friends_lists On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On [May 28], at [ May 28] 7:07 , André Luís wrote: > >> I always thought of rel="next" as a xfn-only thing. > > I'm not seeing rel="next" in the XFN documentation. Unless I'm missing > something, it's not only not XFN-only, it's not XFN at all. > > On [May 28], at [ May 28] 10:09 , André Luís wrote: > >> hatom, rel="hfeed next" >> hcalendar, rel="hcalendar next" >> >> Since both formats have a root node to encapsulate several >> hentry|vevent, it would be (AFAIK) semantically correct. > > > I don't believe those are appropriate uses of the rel attribute. > Regardless, they're new uses, so if you're interested in pursuing this > further, please take it to the -new list: > > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new/ > > Peace, > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- David Janes Founder, BlogMatrix http://www.blogmatrix.com http://www.onaswarm.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss