This comment about SGML  make me ask
if any of the developers are aware of the move
from HTML   to XML   and to RDF ( resource description framework )
work which is going on at http://www.w3.org     ? 
See  the above page  for a report on progress with RDF.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilles Detillieux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25 February 1999 22:01
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: [htdig] File formats supported
> 
> 
> According to Ismael Olea:
> > Gilles Detillieux escribi�:
> > > Seriously, the main page at that URL does mention it.  If you scroll
> down
> > > to the Features section, it says:
> > > 
> > >     - Searching of HTML and text files
> > >         Both HTML documents and plain text files can be searched.
> > >         Searching of other file types will be supported in future
> versions.
> > 
> >     htdig can handle sgml files too? And, can it manage meta tags in
> html
> > files?
> 
> No, I don't think it can handle SGML.  I'm not familiar with SGML, but my
> understanding is that a lot of its tags are quite different than HTML's.
> Also, the http server would likely assign a different content-type to
> SGML documents, so htdig won't even attempt to parse them.
> 
> Meta tags in HTML are supported by htdig.
> 
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