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. XFN was the first microformat, introduced in December 2003.

Example

A friend of Jimmy Example could indicate that relationship by publishing a link on their site like this:

<a href="http://jimmy.example.com/" rel="friend">Jimmy Example</a>

Multiple values may be used, so if that friend has met Jimmy:

<a href="http://jimmy.example.com/" rel="friend met">Jimmy Example</a>

See also
 FOAF
 hCard

References

External links
 XFN at the Global Multimedia Protocols Group

Microformats
Social networking services
XML-based standards
Semantic HTML