Re: META

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Thu, 29 Jun 95 11:50:47 EDT

Glenn writes:
| 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;.

But, as has been mentioned, we have shied away from requiring UAs to
read an internal subset, because then authors can put anything in
there (ISO 12083, etc). So this is not the best way forward.

I agree with Stu that I want metadata that can be displayed, sometime,
somewhere. But not in the body of the documents. So inventing a
tag to go in BODY is out, too. The metadata might be collected by
some program and displayed (or hey, just *used*) totally outside
of WWW, HTML, and so on.

Regards,

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