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 Getting in Touch with XML Contacts
Subject: How about FOAF
Date: 2004-04-01 08:58:41
From: Harry Criswell

I've only read about FOAF but doesn't FOAF overlap the vCard/RDF about section? How many ways do we need to represent a persons / contacts attributes? Hopefully the 4 different XML structures mentioned and others that may exist can be rolled into one "standard" that covers all the same attributes of a contact.


Just like the versions of RSS that were developed separately so have very differing structures. It would be easier to support one definitive standard that followed a controlled path of enhancement over succeeding versions than several different versions developed without regard for the existing format / structure of the others.


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