At 8:15 PM -0500 12/3/99, Tom Metro wrote:
>pressure on content developers. And maintaining backwards
>compatibility with existing HTML will likely require a forgiving
>parser. This may make it a bit harder to find a suitable "off the
>shelf" XML parser. Though the parser in Mozilla must have to deal with
>the same issues when it parses HTML.)
We've always had a very lenient parser. We had a rather long
discussion about the details of comment parsing a while back, with
the result being very lenient about what is declared a comment.
> > 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'm not sure how meta tag support fits into this thread. I would
>assume that if you did go the XML route, it would just be a matter of
>constructing the right DTD to allow the XML parser to recognize the
>legacy meta tags.
Many people feel that a <meta> tag is a bad idea, since something
like <author></author> or <subject></subject> is easier to read,
parse, etc. You aren't working out attributes of a tag, you're just
reading the contents of the tags.
>What's Dublin Core?
It's a standard for metainformation. Initially it used <meta> tags in
HTML, though I think the push is towards RDF.
-Geoff
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