[uf-discuss] Next/Prev [was Rationale for providing hAtom instead of Atom/RSS feeds]

Thu May 29 05:01:33 PDT 2008

Two example pages:
 <html>
 <title>Page 1</title>
 <link rel="next" rev="prev" href="page-2">
 <body>
 <div class="hentry">
 <h1 class="entry-title">Entry 1</h1>
 <p class="entry-content">Content.</p>
 </div>
 </body>
 </html>
 <html>
 <title>Page 2</title>
 <link rel="prev" rev="next" href="page-1">
 <body>
 <div class="hentry">
 <h1 class="entry-title">Entry 2</h1>
 <p class="entry-content">Content.</p>
 </div>
 </body>
 </html>
As I understand the semantics of next/prev, they indicate links to
separate resources - not a continuation of the current resource. i.e.
These pages represent two separate feeds, each of which contains a single
entry.
The reason some XFN parsers will recurse to rel="me next" and rel="me
prev" links is not the next/prev relations, but rel="me" -- they can
spider rel="me" links (presumably constrained to a particular depth limit)
and consolidate the information into a single unified profile.
-Toby