Re: META
Bert Bos (bert@let.rug.nl)
Wed, 28 Jun 95 14:19:15 EDT
Murray Maloney writes:
|weibel@oclc.org writes:
|>
|> [...], I *DO* want displayable metadata... I just don't want it displayed
|> as a matter of course by browsers.
|>
|> But I think we need not resolve the fine details at the outset... the
|> whole idea is to quickly put in place a convention that will allow us
|> to experiment without splattering the users screen with ugly constructs.
|>
|This may seem like an off-the-wall suggestion, but ...
|
|Would it be in any way reasonable and/or acceptable for
|a document's meta data to be stored outside of the
|actual document and accessible via a hypertext link?
|
|I would imagine that a collection of HTML documents (files)
|that comprise a work (book) would/might have identical
|associated meta data. If that is true, then a single
|(or small set of) meta data file would be preferable
|to repeating the meta data in each HTML file's <HEAD>.
|
|So, I wonder whether a <LINK REL=META ...> is a possibility.
|
|(I bet some of you saw this coming, didn't you?)
Seems like a good idea, but maybe an include mechanism (say something
like <INCLUDE SRC="URL">) is an even more general solution. It could
be used for other things besides META data.
|P.S. We're talking post-2.0.
Bert
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