11715 2011-01-10 13:56:09 +0000 Map HTML <article><a rel=author> to Atom <entry><author> 2013-03-08 23:42:14 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#atom P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian eoconnor ian mike philipj robin contributor oldest_to_newest 43989 0 contributor 2011-01-10 13:56:09 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#atom Comment: Map HTML <article><a rel=author> to Atom <entry><author> Posted from: 81.234.240.182 by philip@foolip.org 43990 1 philipj 2011-01-10 14:11:19 +0000 After implementing most of <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#extracting-atom> I found this to be a useful addition. Just using <meta name=author> for feed-wide author isn't as awesome as it could be if you're converting a planet-like page with many authors. rel=author is already suitable defined, so this HTML <article> <header> <h1>Title</h1> by <a href="http://foolip.org" rel=author>Philip Jägenstedt</a> </header> Bla bla bla... </article> would give something like the following Atom: <entry xml:base="..."> <title type="html">Title</title> <author><name>Philip Jägenstedt</name><uri>http://foolip.org/</uri></author> <content type="html"> Bla bla bla... </content> </feed> (I'm using the plain-text textContent of <a> as <author><name>.) This has the benefit that you can get both a URL and a name for an author, which you can't do with a combination of <meta> and <link> since you can't be sure that it's for the same author. With this change, it might be worth making the algorithm fail if there's not enough <author> sprinkled around to make it valid Atom, but that's another issue. 43991 2 philipj 2011-01-10 14:25:26 +0000 Uh, and maybe some magic to turn mailto: URLs into <author><email>, although http://feedvalidator.org/ doesn't complain about <uri>mailto:...</uri>. 45240 3 ian 2011-02-08 02:08:12 +0000 The reason I didn't do that is that it's perfectly valid to put content other than the author's name in a link with rel=author, so we can't really grab the name that way. I'm marking this LATER, so that I look at it again in a while. If people are using this algorithm, then it would make sense to handle this kind of thing more carefully in a future revision. 45248 4 hober0 2011-02-08 04:17:56 +0000 You could at least map <article><a rel=author href="..."> to <entry><author><uri>... 84146 5 ian 2013-03-08 23:42:14 +0000 We dropped the whole Atom thing, if I'm not mistaken.