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XFN – XHTML friends Network
Table of Contents
XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent relationships between people in XHTML.It allows you to mark up links to other people’s web pages with metadata describing your relationship to them.
Relationships
- General
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- met
- Someone who you have actually met in person. Symmetric.
professional
- co-worker
- Someone a person works with, or works at the same institution as. Symmetric. Usually transitive.
- colleague
- Someone in the same field of study/activity. Symmetric. Often transitive.
geographical (pick at most one)
- co-resident
- Someone you share a street address with. Symmetric and transitive.
- neighbor
- Someone who lives nearby, perhaps only at an adjacent street address or doorway. Symmetric. frequently enough transitive.
family (pick at most one)
- child
- A person’s genetic offspring, or someone that a person has adopted and takes care of. Inverse is parent.
- parent
- Inverse of child.
- sibling
- Someone a person shares a parent with. Symmetric. usually transitive.
- spouse
- Someone you are married to. Symmetric.Not transitive.
- kin
- A relative, someone you consider part of your extended family. Symmetric and typically transitive.
romantic
- muse
- someone who brings you inspiration. No inverse.
- crush
- Someone you have a crush on. No inverse.
- date
- Someone you are dating. Symmetric. Not transitive.
- sweetheart
- Someone with whom you are intimate and at least somewhat committed, typically exclusively. Symmetric. Not transitive.
identity
- me
- A link to yourself at a different URL. Exclusive of all other XFN values. Required symmetric. There is an implicit “me” relation from the contents of a directory to the directory itself.
Acknowledgments
Please see our Thanks page for acknowledgments.
Copyright
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