Scott Reynen wrote:
On [Dec 15], at [ Dec 15] 12:54 , Martin McEvoy wrote:
To back up my argument, I'll cite the vCard spec (RFC 2426) which
defines the purpose of "UID" as:
To specify a value that represents a globally unique
identifier corresponding to the individual or resource
associated with the vCard.
That is, the UID is a unique identifier for the contact, not a
unique identifier for the card.
Nope you will find that the UID is for the entire vcard....
That seems to directly contradict the RFC as Toby quoted. Everything
after this seems to hinge on what UID means, so clearing this up may
resolve everything else. What exactly do you mean by "you will
find"? Find somewhere other than the RFC?
Hello Scott I don't understand your issue , are you suggesting that a
hcard may have more than one UID element?
The UID element *is* the Unique Identifier of an entire hcard/vcard
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-singular-properties#uid
Find on a different reading of the RFC? I'm not finding that at all
in my reading of the RFC, which seems to be pretty much the same as
Toby's, i.e. the UID is for the contact, not the vCard.
I rely on this definition of UID every time I sync my address book.
Two vCards with the same UID are assumed to be the same contact,
because the UID identifies the contact. If UID were for the vCard,
those two vCards would necessarily have different UIDs and I'd end up
with duplicate contacts in my address book.
Correct, what If I had multiple hcards on a single page for different
organizations or companies I work for all marked containing uid, every
@href attribute may be different but all essentially Me, In my address
book I have multiple contacts for the same person, Don't you?
Anyway you missed my point what I was saying is that no two uid values
on a page should be the same even if they are for different people, make
them different somehow.
what I said about authoritative hcard, I ment representative hcard
sorry my mistake
Thanks
--
Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
"You may find it hard to swallow the notion that anything as large and apparently
inanimate as the Earth is alive."
Dr. James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia
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