Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Egon Schmid:
> > There are some free XML parsers available from James Clark
> > http://www.jclark.com/. I don't see any future for meta tags and Dublin
> > Core. The concept of structured fields or SGML/XML are very important.
>
> I think when it comes to ht://Dig development, we need to respect the past
> as much as we look to the future. All the new developments are great, but
> we've been burned a few times before when we adhered too closely to new
> standards and broke support for older, non-standard (or loose standard)
> documents.
>
> Meta tags may not have much of a future, but there's no denying how heavily
> they're used today, nor how many of today's documents will still need to
> be parsed and indexed in the future. That means we can't drop meta tag
> support, and if enough people still want it, it may still be a good idea
> to extend that support to include Dublin Core.
I had once to find a search engine who was able to index structured
data. The source was pure SGML. So we mapped the interesting tags to
HTML meta tags. First success with namazu, later on with swish-e, we
could index the SGML source files directly. SGML/XML is a meta language,
meaning a language over language, and gaining more popularity in
Northern America than in Europe.
I agree with you, Dublin Core is not the solution, but to be able to
index SGML/XML elements and search for attributes would be very helpful.
-Egon
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