Yes, but...
While high-end information providers will be able to sustain the effort
required to maintain such indexes, there is still a need for a simple scheme
for annotating in-line content as metadata. Something along the lines of a
<KW> tag that didn't get special rendering would be nice and simple. It should
be easy, on the low end, for a document author to mark up keywords.
In Danvers, TimBL mentioned that we should make it recommended practice for
user agents not to render any unrecognized tags that occur within the <HEAD>
element. This is a good idea, although it might choke some HTML checkers. I
would like, as a first step, to see the <HEAD> element fleshed out with some
simple indexing tags, or perhaps a reference (<LINK>?) to a metadata DTD
describing the meta content of this <HEAD> tag instance. <META> might be OK
for many uses, but its limitation is the empty content model, that means you
have to cram everything into an attribute.
-marc
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