Re: Semantic Tagging in Web Objects

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 14:10:02 +0500
From: waterbug@epims1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Steve Waterbury)
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To: dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: Semantic Tagging in Web Objects
Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch, forman@cs.washington.edu
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Dave Raggett writes:

> The DTD already includes ABSTRACT to allow the overview of a document to
> be shown in a distinct manner from the rest of the text....
>    [... stuff omitted ....]
> Version and ownership etc. can be handled in a generic way using the
> META element which appears in the document's head ....
> 

I vote for this.

> 
> Another powerful approach is to extend the HTML+ DTD on a per document
> basis and use the RENDER element to tell the browser how to render new
> elements in terms of older ones. In fact, I really want to throw out
> most of the existing semantic emphasis tags!

Good.  


Steve Waterbury