James M Snell wrote:
>
> Bill de hÓra wrote:
>
>> I think you're proposing to enable a kind of Atom microformat - "if you
>> see profile ?x check for ?a ?b and ?c". Sorting it out on consumer
>> sounds flaky ('sounds', not 'is'), but this also might be very cool. I
>> wonder why you need a link to do this instead of foo:profile tag.
>>
>>
>>
> Precisely. Yes, sorting everything out on the client does *sound*
> flaky, but we're not introducing any new problem here. XHTML
> microformats have the same problem.
Microformats for the most part have a defined structure; this proposal
isn't providing structure.
> Regarding the use of a link versus foo:profile, I really have no
> preference one way or the other. The profile reference should be a
> dereferencable link to a profile document that describes the profile
> but, for the most part, clients will likely only rarely ever dereference
> it (using the href more as an identifier). Strictly speaking,
> dereferenceable profile links should probably use the atom:link element
> but there is no hard requirement that says a profile element wouldn't
> also work.
Using atom:link strikes me as tag abuse [1]. But that's what
microformats tend to do (use presentational markup for data).
cheers
Bill
[1] http://www.ucc.ie/sdata/faq.html#whatis
