- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:42:11 -0400 ()
- To: elmert@ipoline.com
- cc: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>, www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Steve Cheng wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >>> The external profile could provide default values, which are >>> overriden by the META tags in the document. >> What sort of file format? Is it just an HTML file with META tags? > > It can't be an HTML document, or else it would have to contain > DOCTYPE, TITLE, etc. I would think it is just META tags, as if > by plain insertion. For now profiles are useful as globally unique names for conventions. The profile allows processing software to recognize when a particular set of conventions apply. Work is well underway at W3C on richer means to specify meta data using XML and/or s-expressions. The format for profiles is undecided, and there may be more than one. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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