[OpenID] AddId! - A useful idea of mine?!

[Dick Hardt]

On 1-Feb-07, at 6:00 AM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:

> On 2/1/07, Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com> wrote:
>> All of these formats are limiting Chris.
> Not really... If you want more you expand them.

And when you extend them, how does anyone else know what it means?

> It's not hard to
> extend uF stuff with either namespacing, extra classes, XOXO, or some
> other method.  Benefits would include:
>
> * Existing parsing code - no need to redo the work.
> * Instant compatibility with existing uF-compliant services
> * Less complicated encoding - synonymous values to vCard
> * Existing relationship syntax
> * Existing tag/metadata encoding
> * Easy addressing (URL#hCard, URL#blogroll, etc)

Most of the web applications take name/value pairs from form data.  
The URI model where each attribute has it's own schema maps well to  
the existing paradigms, and it is hard to get simpler then a string  
for parsing.

Curious, have you looked at Attribute Exchange?

-- Dick