Re: Microdata: itemid attribute (feedback)

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Martin McEvoy wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > > Given that RDF has been deployed for a while now, can you give any 
> > > example where this feature has been used? I.e. where several 
> > > *independent* parties have described properties of the same object, 
> > > and used this identifying mechanism to do it.
> 
> Yes there is one example I can think of ( not in a RDF sense ) I think 
> the uid class in microformats hcard is intended to be used as a unique 
> identifier of a hcard, it is also a url. The uid identifier is used to 
> determine a representative hCard [1]. I like to think of it more as the 
> canonical url of a hCard. Itemid and uid do seem very similar in 
> concept.
> 
> [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/representative-hcard

The Microdata vCard vocabulary excludes UID for this reason (there's a 
comment in the source mentioning that itemid="" should be used instead).

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/vocabs/current-work/

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