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XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is an HTML microformat which represents human relationships with hyperlinks.

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Why should I use XFN in my HTML?

What is the benefit of using XFN (XHTML Friends Network)? I've seen this on multiple blogs and social networking sites but I don't really understand why it's useful. Other than being able to style these elements with CSS3 and select them with…
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Is it possible to include more than one link tag in an HTML document with the same rel="..." value?

I am using the default wordpress theme (twentyseventee) and I see that the header includes the following: I would like to also use the hCard microformat to describe my info (photo, name, email,…
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Is XFN (XHTML Friends Network) still in use?

For starters, I understand what is the use of XFN for blogs. I see it being used in every WordPress theme. It makes sense. But, is it still in use? http://gmpg.org/xfn/11 is showing no documentation. This page is empty. I had to access this page…
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XFN: should I use 'a' or 'link' element?

Edit: somewhat rewritten for clarification How do social search engines interpret a link element (in the head) compared to an a element (in the body), when the link is related to XHTML Friends Network relation? In particular, Google social graph…
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Parsing XFN data with Jquery, round 2

You guys already helped me on correctly parsing the REL attribute on A tags, but there are two XFN values that I'm not able to match: "co-worker" and "co-resident". The hyphen causes an error with jquery. I tried this xfn_co-worker =…
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Parsing XFN data with Jquery

I'm trying to filter the XFN relationships meta data found in web pages. It is something like this: Name in REL you can have various values, like "friend", "collegue" but even "me" and "met" because you…
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