Hi Jonathan, I second Patrick's comment that 'pointing' the DC records to content on the page is not the solution.
Although, from a maintenance perspective, this may appear to be a work-around for not completing the metadata records (questionable), metadata harvesting tools are unlikely to populate the content attribute of the meta element with content from the webpage. In other words, the metadata records cease to have value as metadata. Consider educating content authors or moving to a CMS. For example, in a CMS, a rule could be created that require a minimum set of metadata records to be completed before content can be published. If using a static system, then adding a placeholder for metadata content to template pages may be a solution, e.g. <meta name="DC.title" content="[tba]" /> <meta name="DC.creator" content="[tba]" /> (The author would then search the source code for the string '[tba]' as part of the publishing protocol to remind them to complete the md records.) >** The problem ** >People updating Web pages often doesn't update the metadata in the header. > >** The solution ** >Tag appropriate Web data with id attributes. Point to the data from the >appropriate metadata field in the header. Best regards, -- Andy Kirkwood | Creative Director Motive | web.design.integrity http://www.motive.co.nz ph: (04) 3 800 800 fx: (04) 970 9693 mob: 021 369 693 93 Rintoul St, Newtown PO Box 7150, Wellington South, New Zealand ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
