On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> As I said at Warwick, I'd be very wary of assuming that the sequence
> of META tags will be preserved by any HTML processing software. As far
> as I know, HoTMetaL Pro does preserve the order, but I wouldn't
> trust Internet Assistant (say) not to reverse them.
>
> There is nothing in the spec (RFC1866) that allows the order of META tags
> to mean anything.
Hmm, wouldn't that mean that the SGML parse tree would have been
restructured by the tool? Icky. From my reading of the RFC, the DTD
doesn't explicitly allow the order of META elements to be changed any more
than the order of IMG elements can be swapped about. In fact Section 3.1.
(SGML Documents) tends to imply that the parse tree for particular HTML
instance is fixed. If some tool changes the parse tree then its
generating a new document (and thus will need new metadata anyway) or is
broken by my reading of the RFC.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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