Authors can be "links"

[kptdobe]

Check page: https://main--blog--adobe.hlx3.page/ko/publish/2021/10/21/digital-transformation-determining-the-future-of-healthcare

The author links points to https://main--blog--adobe.hlx3.page/ko/authors/------.

2 issues here:

1. During the content import, the "author" is converted into a meta property. But in the source document, the author can be a link: this is how we solved the problem when the author link cannot be deducted from author name (especially true in KO and JP or for authors with special characters in the name). The link gets lost during the import (I have added now the link on the example page to observe the next issue).
2. If we change the author property in the metadata table to be a link, the link is removing during rendering.

Several options:

1. Add support for a link in the author metadata property in Word - the link should then be outputted as another meta because the author meta tag does not support it. There is no standard or OG representing it. We should invent one (author:url ? like in og:image:url). The pipeline should then be extended.
2. Split the 2, have another row with author:link or authorLink (no necessarily user friendly).
3. Create a new block for it (really complicated).

In all cases, the importer must be adjusted.

@fkakatie @davidnuescheler @rofe WDYT ?

[rofe]

How about...
4. Always use the latin author name in the author meta property (so its translation into an author link would be straight forward) and fetch the actual display name from the generated link? Or even better:
5. The value of the author meta property could be any string, I suppose, so it could also be a URL, right? so why not put the link to the author page there, and fetch the display name from there? Word would probably create links out of these URLs if authors aren't careful, but we could easily deal with that in the pipeline.

[kptdobe]

4. Only the the non-latin version is important, the rest is a trick to find the author page. The latin name might still need some filtering to find the url. It might not be one-to-one. Finally, we display the non-latin version in the LCP block, we would need to fetch it first to be able to show something.
5. from https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-author-20110809/the-meta-element.html#meta-author: The value must be a free-form string giving the name of one of the page's authors + same pb than about.

[kptdobe]

After chatting with @davidnuescheler, decision is: use a separate metadata property (Author URL).
I'll change the importer to convert the links into 2 separate properties and I'll adjust the code to handle the Author URL meta.