there you go! Matt - write it up on the wiki and people can start
using the bits that already work - maybe someone can help with the
sticky bit? (change the W3C rules just for you?)
Liddy
On 04/06/2006, at 6:23 AM, Matthew Smith wrote:
>
> Quoth Paul Walsh, Segala at 2006-06-04 06:34...
> <snip/>
>> I look forward to the day when tools such as search engines and
>> browsers
>> make use of more meaningful metadata in the future.
>
> Oh boy, yes! I have been going to great pains to get my
> content-creation software to include metadata, against such a
> time. For
> instance, I have written a light-weight alternative to Perl's mod_cgi:
> HTML::XHTML::Lite - specifically designed to get metadata and links to
> metadata into document heads.
>
> My next step is to try to get inline metadata documents, but am so far
> being beaten by the W3C validator choking on the import of another
> namespace:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html
> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
> xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>
> Looks like I'm going to have to use something like:
>
> <a href="meta.rdf" rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml"
> title="metadata
> about foo bar">meta</a>
>
> ...to get anything like inline. Dragging an external document into
> the
> equation may not be as bad as I thought because, after all, we do link
> to CSS style sheets.
>
> You may be interested in this tool that pulls out metadata from the
> document head for at-a-glance access:
> http://www.smiffysplace.com/sourcebrowse.pl
> (Source available, only 261 lines.)
>
> Cheers
>
> M
>
> --
> Matthew Smith
> IT Consultancy & Web Application Development
> http://www.kbc.net.au
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