unAPI revision 3 published

unAPI revision 3 is available.

This revision incorporates many significant changes from revision 2 and has become much simpler and shorter to boot!  Specific changes include:

  • Any kind of identifier may now be used (previously required URIs)
  • SPAN changed to ABBR
  • unAPI class changed to “unapi-id”
  • unAPI LINK rel changed to “unapi-server”
  • Response format simplified, optional namespace_uri and schema_location removed
  • Several informative notes added including a complete example, a response format schema, and suggestions for choosing identifiers and handling empty ABBR elements
  • Contributor list updated
  • Edited throughout for concision, clarity

Hopefully you will agree that this is the best unAPI yet.  Please consider adding unAPI to your web apps!

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