This web page is for documenting Q&A about XFN along with the official XFN FAQ. It is likely that objects right here will be incorporated there. Or maybe GMPG might choose to redirect the FAQ right here – this is to be decided. For now, in case you have a brand new question to ask about XFN, please consider first asking your question on the microformats-focus on mailing record. Please first read the official XFN FAQ. How do I reference the XFN profile in HTML5? AKA the obsolete profile attribute problem. The profile attribute on the head factor is out of date. Does it’s all the time implied as a romantic relationship, since one may actually find another person inspiring with out being romantically involved/fascinated? Certainly “muse” was not meant to solely be purely romantic in the literal “romantic relationship” sense (though it is evident how that would easily be misconstrued), and of course that that means is included. The XFN spec defines muse in addition to crush, and one ought not to be confused with the opposite.

Either way, romantically or antenuptial agreement figuratively, the muse conjures up. How do I markup my relationship to companies I used to work for? Markup firms that you simply used to work for in your resume page with hResume. In it each job is captured as an hCalendar occasion with a nested hCard that represents your id (title, url, org-unit and many others) while you had been at that company. For present corporations and organizations that you’re part of, take a look at the rel-group microformat brainstorm proposal. How do I markup those who I used to work with? Use the XFN ‘colleague’ relationship to markup your present relationship to your former co-workers. As well as, you need to use XFN on links to individuals inside a weblog submit set a date and time context for when that relationship was true. Thus over time, it is possible to use completely different XFN values to replicate the evolving nature of your relationships. See XFN: Background: Out of time for more.

Is there anything in there for locative info, like ‘my workplace,’ and so on.? We’ve “rel” tags for humans. Is there an equivalent for location and place? Markup location info associated to your office as a part of your type work tackle (adr) in your hCard. Wondering why XFN definitions do not embody “fool”, “enemy”, “jerk”, “pedant”, and so forth. Negative relationship terms have been omitted from XFN by design. The authors think that such values would not serve a constructive ends and thus made the deliberate determination to leave them out. From “XFN Background: Positive or neutral relationships only” – extra reasons and clarification supplied there. Is there such a factor as an asymmetric xfn relationship? Most XFN relationships aren’t required to be symmetric and are therefore usually asymmetric in actual world use. This could in all probability use more real world evaluation. All other XFN 1.1 relationships usually are not required to be symmetric, nor can they necessarily or must be anticipated to be.

Is there a ‘fans’ or ‘fan of’ kind of XFN relationship? See XFN Brainstorming: fans and followers. If I’m a fan of someone, what XFN rel value ought to I use when linking to them? Right now there is no such thing as a good inverse time period for stating that you are a fan of someone. Follow-up: Would I determine as an acquaintance of that person? Not necessarily. rel-acquaintance asserts greater than that, that is, that you have no less than had a conversation or some kind of interplay with them. You do not necessarily have any interaction with folks that you are a fan of. For now, you could possibly use rel-contact to not less than assert that you’ve got some contact info for that person (their URL presmably) or consider that particular person to be a contact, but even that does not convey the which means that you’re a fan of theirs. Wondering how people intend to validate xfn… Use the rel-lint validator by Drew McLellan which checks a web page for customary rel values from HTML 4.01 and XFN 1.1, and shows warnings for any unrecognized values.