hCard-XFN pattern to Portable Contacts
This experimental interface provides a way to parse microformat hCard-XFN pattern into the data format used by the Portable Contacts API. It does not yet provide the querying, sorting and pagination nor the endpoint URL elements of the specification. The aim was to evaluate any data loss or added ambiguity that may occur when converting an hCard-XFN pattern into the Portable Contacts API data schema. We used the UfXtract microformats parser and a custom .Net Portable Contacts API library.
Note: All XFN values are marked as tags and not relationships as there bi-directionally assertion cannot easly be checked.
The URL property can take a fragment identifier so you can target segments of a HTML document.