Future of meta-indices: site indexing proposal and Perl script

rst@ai.mit.edu (Robert S. Thau)
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Subject: Future of meta-indices: site indexing proposal and Perl script 
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   rst@ai.mit.edu (Robert S. Thau) wrote:
   >
   >   <meta purpose="index,header" name="Keywords"
   >         value="metaindex, resource discovery, DTD syntax">
   >
   >(The last one might be cleaner as <meta purpose="header" purpose="index"...>;
   >I did it as a single CDATA string assumed to contain a comma-separated list
   >of purposes simply to make it easier to type in manually).

   I assume it should still be SGML.

Ah yes, you clipped the part where I said, "not being an SGML adept...".

   Then neither of the two syntaxes is
   any good.  The second isn't even valid SGML.  A better way would be to
   declare PURPOSE as NAMES.  Then it can be a list of names.  Attribute
   value lists in SGML are written without comma, only white-space
   separate the list items.

   Lennart Staflin  <lenst@lysator.liu.se>
   You are in a twisty little maze of URLs, all alluring.

This would be, then, <meta purpose="index header" ...>?  At any rate, I'll
bow out to your expertise on the details, here...

rst