- From: Nick Arnett <narnett@verity.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 19:30:26 -0800
- To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>, Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>, www-html@www0.cern.ch
At 4:47 PM 9/15/94 -0700, Terry Allen wrote: > ... what did you want of the META >tag? are the proposed atts sufficient? do you want to add more, >or to suggest values for them? What's really proposed at this point? The kind of information that we'll have at first would be things like author's names (possibly separated into first, last, etc.), date published, created, maybe even last-modified, even though that's in the HTTP header, key words... The debate was between adding lots of new tags similar to <TITLE> or adopting something like META that would be a more generalized scheme... or using comments (ugh). I brought up semantic tagging, but that's overkill at this point... although we should bear such needs in mind for the future. How about a scheme that permits directed acyclical graphs? META looks like this: <META name="TITLE" value="Rotkaeppchen"> <META name="YEAR" value="1990"> With this sort of scheme, we can just teach our spider to look at the name, see if it fits an attribute in the index being built and add the value if it exists (or optionally, create the attribute and enter the value). I just noticed that back in June when this discussion got hot, someone suggested that www-html was a better list for discussing it. I'll cross-post and let's do the follow-up there. Nick
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