- From: Pete Johnston <p.johnston@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:36:25 -0000
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
Hello, Looking at the description of the <meta> element in the recent (2002-12-18) WD of XHTML 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml2-20021218/mod-meta.html#s_metamodule I notice that the scheme attribute of XHTML 1.0/HTML 4 http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-scheme is no longer available. I've scanned the various attributes which have been introduced, but I can't see anything which provides the semantic equivalent of the scheme attribute. I don't see any indication of why the scheme attribute has been dropped, and I'd like to understand more about the reason behind the change and whether there is another mechanism for representing the information previously conveyed using that attribute. In the context of Dublin Core metadata, the scheme attribute is useful for capturing "qualifying" information about the values of metadata properties and its use is part of recommended practice for representing Dublin Core metadata in HTML. See, for example: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt Regards Pete ------- Pete Johnston Interoperability Research Officer UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK tel: +44 (0)1225 383619 fax: +44 (0)1225 386838 mailto:p.johnston@ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/p.johnston/
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