- From: Marc Salomon <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:09:44 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com> |Also, I don't think that providing support for validating/enforcing the |contents of the information is a minor issue. META seems to get you |into the same kind of documentary equivalent of spaghetti code that |we've been discussing about CLASS. The issue of classifying metadata for arbitrary objects is a problem already solved by the library community and is orders of magnitude less complex than specifying content models for arbitrary document forms. There is work currently underway in the metadata community to standardize the use of the <META> HTML element. Stay tuned. But <META> is only going to scale for the most lightweight metadata applications, and for more complex collections, first-class metadata objects will be the answer. -marc --
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