I'm just tossing an idea out for discussion (and to get it out of my head).
I've been looking recently at XFN as it's used "in the wild" as a method of social network portability, or as Chris has probably more correctly relabeled it, "portable contact lists" [1]. In several cases, for example here [2]. Obviously this is a requirement to make this _human usable_ but unfortunately without further assistance an XFN parser is only going to get a fraction of the contact list. Not good. HTML has rel= elements for paging through data: rel, next, index, start and contents [3]. My thoughts: - has something already been done and I'm missing it (if so: end here ;-) otherwise - let's gather examples from the web, and start seeing how we can sort this out I don't think this is an overly difficult project, maybe, hopefully. I may just be a matter of defining how those link types work within the context of a page or particular microformats. In particular, there's probably an hAtom hfeed/fentry connection here too, and probably also for contact lists. Maybe there's a need to define an (optional) enclosing element, maybe there's not. Regards, etc... [1] http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/03/11/portable-contact-lists-and-the-case-against-xfn/ [2] http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/scobleizer.xml [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links -- David Janes Founder, BlogMatrix http://www.blogmatrix.com http://www.onaswarm.com http://www.onamine.com _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
