Relationship data — XFN — not published in my blog

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  rogercostello · Member · Mar 10, 2008 at 12:08 pm

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  Hi,

  When I add an individual to my blogroll the user interface on WordPress.com gives me the ability to designate the individual as friend, co-worker, etc. I recognize these as XFN values (XFN = XHTML Friends Network). According to the XFN specification, these relationship values should be placed on the link, in a rel attribute, e.g.

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  After adding the individual to my blogroll I see a web page containing the link to the new individual. But when I do View >> Page Source on that web page I do not see the XFN stuff on the link. For example, here is a link on my blogroll:

  adambosworth.wordpress.com

  Notice that there is no rel=”…” on the link.

  Someone suggested that perhaps “the WordPress theme your blog is using doesn’t publish the
  XFN data” Is that true? If so, is there a theme that I can switch to which does publish the XFN data?

  Thanks! /Roger

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  rogercostello · Member · Mar 10, 2008 at 12:12 pm

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  Sorry, I forgot to escape the code:

  … According to the XFN specification, these relationship values should be placed on the link, in a rel attribute, e.g.

  <a href="..." rel="friend co-worker">

  … For example, here is a link on my blogroll:

  `adambosworth.wordpress.com‘

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  rogercostello · Member · Mar 10, 2008 at 12:13 pm

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  Yikes, let me try again:

  … For example, here is a link on my blogroll:

  <a href='http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/' title='Visit Adam Bosworth’s Weblog'>adambosworth.wordpress.com</a>