Re: META

Glenn Adams (glenn@stonehand.com)
Wed, 28 Jun 95 14:39:33 EDT

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 14:18:45 EDT
From: Bert Bos <bert@let.rug.nl>

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.

There's already a perfectly good HTML 2.0 conformant way to accomplish
inclusions or referencing of arbitrary external data without having to
create an INCLUDE element type. It just requires smarter user agents:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN" [
<!NOTATION MyNotation PUBLIC "-//MyOrg//NOTATION MyNotation//EN">
<!ENTITY MyRandomData SYSTEM "http://foo.com/random.dat" NDATA MyNotation>
<!ENTITY MyPCData SYSTEM "http://foo.com/pcdata.htm">
]>
<title>External Stuff</>
<p>Don't retype &MyPCData;, just execute &MyRandomData;.

Glenn