XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
microformat developed by
Global Multimedia Protocols Group that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links. XFN enables web authors to indicate relationships to the people in their
blogrolls by adding one or more keywords as the
''rel'' attribute to their links.
XFN was the first
microformat, introduced in December 2003.
Example
A friend of Jimmy Example could indicate that relationship by publishing a link on their site like this:
:
Jimmy Example
Multiple values may be used, so if that friend has met Jimmy:
:
Jimmy Example
See also
*
FOAF
*
hCard
References
External links
XFN at the Global Multimedia Protocols GroupXFN creatorPage to generate XFN hyperlinks
Microformats 'wiki'
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Microformats
Social networking services
XML-based standards
Semantic HTML