url -> name

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:00:22PM -0700, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2005, Ben Hyde wrote:
> 
> > The mention of FOAF in the current spec is a vestigial organ, right?
> 
> The way it's mentioned in the spec is correct:  the helper on the
> consumer's site can do whatever it wants... maybe it returns/parses a FOAF
> or hCARD or XFN... whatever.  Once you know a user does indeed own a URL
> tree, you can trust any document underneith it, including FOAF and such.
> If their FOAF link is to a document outside of their owned URL tree, then
> you shouldn't parse it.  If you do, you'll have to double-check it has a
> "rel=me" pointer to something they own, but I'm not sure the exact syntax
> for that in FOAF.

Couple ways: most common way is just to say "This is my homepage" or
"this is my weblog". Alternative is to look for a "foaf:made" - I made
this document.

<Person xmlns="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
  <nick>crschmidt</nick>
  <weblog rdf:resource="http://crschmidt.livejournal.com" />
  <homepage rdf:resource="http://crschmidt.net" />
  <made rdf:resource="http://crschmidt.net/" />
</Person>

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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