Re: meta information

Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>

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Dan wrote:

> Proposal II: It's for private indexing techniques. Then why not
> 	use comments or processing instructions?
> [examples deleted]
> 
> As long as these techniques are private to one implementation, this
> is all you need. 

Sure.

> If you get to the point where you expect other
> folks to understand the meaning of these idioms, just propose
> new tags:
> 	<KEYWORDS>a,b,c,</keywords>
> 	<description>lkjsdlfkjsldf... </description>

Well, if you do that and your browser doesn't understand these tags
the text in between ends up in your document, which is not where
you want it. At least with <META ...> that doesn't happen.

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