According to Antti Rauramo:
> I'm confused: I have the following three test pages:
> http://www.edita.fi/netmarket2/tuotteet
> http://www.edita.fi/netmarket2/tuotteet/testi.html
> http://www.edita.fi/netmarket2/tuotteet/testi2.html
>
> with just links to the two latter pages on the index page, and the
> htsearch at
> http://www.edita.fi/cgi-bin/htdig/htsearch?config=nm2
>
> A copy of the nm2.conf is at
> http://www.edita.fi/netmarket2/tuotteet/nm2.conf
>
> Now, if you try searching with a word like "iskusana", you'll see that
> the resulting $(DESCRIPTION) is empty, and the $(DESCRIPTIONS) has an
> empty slot, and (valid?) punctuation missing.
>
> It's obvious that there absolutely are no more than a single link
> pointing to the files, so it seems that the $(DESCRIPTION) is not
> showing the first link text as it should.
>
> The question is: WHY?!? Help is appreciated! Htdig is 3.1.0 on Solaris
> 2.6.
Very good question. I've looked over the code, and I can't make a lot
of sense out of it. The reason the spaces and punctuation are stripped
out of the $(DESCRIPTIONS) entry is because of the
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
tag in the index page. For whatever reason, htdig/HTML.cc still collects
href tags and their description words when indexing is turned off, but
doesn't collect the spaces and punctuation between words in this case.
This seems inconsistent - it ought to collect either the whole description,
or none at all.
I couldn't figure out from the code why there was an empty slot in
$(DESCRIPTIONS). As far as I can see, it only adds empty descriptions
for tags like these:
<meta http-equiv=refresh content="url=...">
<frame src="...">
<area href="...">
Also, for whatever reason, htsearch seems to set $(DESCRIPTION) to the
second entry in the $(DESCRIPTIONS) list. I really don't know why that
is. Maybe the author of the code for that feature could shed some light.
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
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