- From: Ryan King <ryan@theryanking.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:19:42 +0000
- To: steve@xulux.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Steven Ellis wrote: > Hi, > > I think that document fragments, whether they be structurally or > conceptually coherent, need to be permitted formal expression in > XHTML. The simplest illustration of this may be xhtml microformats. > > Bracing microformats (and other fragments) using globally unique > identifiers would permit machine isolation and analysis, cross > referencing, consensus, scriptability, coalescence, and the > association of folksonomies with high resolution. > > Please consider an attribute capable of accepting an arbitrary > 'unique concept / null concept' identifier. > > <div identity="3C05DC85-DC34-4546-9210-02EC43188367" id="MyCard" > class="hCard">Content</div> > > In this case 3C05DC85-DC34-4546-9210-02EC43188367 may achieve > consensus as an hCard microformat reference. Can you speculate how > this will scale? I thought it good enough to share. Personally, I think URLs + id attributes are enough. (and this comes from someone heavily involved in microformat development). -ryan
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