XHTML Friends Network
Template:Short description XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML 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.<ref name="Social networking beginning to take shape on the Web">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="DasGupta2009">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Haine2006">Template:Cite book</ref> XFN was the first microformat, introduced in December 2003.<ref name="Social networking beginning to take shape on the Web">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Failed verification
ExampleEdit
A friend of Jimmy Example could indicate that relationship by publishing a link on their site like this:
- <syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline><a href="http://jimmy.example.com/" rel="friend">Jimmy Example</a></syntaxhighlight>
Multiple values may be used, so if that friend has met Jimmy:
- <syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline><a href="http://jimmy.example.com/" rel="friend met">Jimmy Example</a></syntaxhighlight>