[uf-discuss] [citation] url field

Thu Dec 7 15:47:19 PST 2006

Ironically, this sounds like another real-world (i.e. not hypothetical)
example of the need to provide a way to differentiate microformats.
-Mike Schinkel
http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/
http://www.welldesignedurls.org/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org 
> [mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On 
> Behalf Of Michael McCracken
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:05 PM
> To: Microformats Discuss
> Subject: Re: Re: RE: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field
>> This seems to have been buried - so again, to anyone 
> interested in hCite:
>> I want to define a new field "URL" to denote an http URL that 
> points to the location of a copy of the cited work.
>> URIs that encode an identifier of the work can be combined 
> with this field, but do not need to be.
>> I understand that the name "URL" may overlap a bit with URI, 
> and something like "downloadlink", etc. might be more direct, 
> but I argue that "URL" is the better choice because it is the 
> most common name already in use in our examples from the web.
>> Can we discuss this revised version of the proposal (or just 
> vote on it?)
>> Thanks,
> -mike