On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Lauren Wood wrote:
> OTOH, a sufficiently clever DC engine could rely on the presence of one META
> element of the form <META NAME="scheme" CONTENT="DC"> to infer that all other
> META elements in the document could be assumed to be DC meta elements. The same
> sort of assumption is used for SCRIPT and STYLE in HTML already.
Surely, that's an assumption we don't want made... We need to be able to
insert metadata from systems other than the 13 core DC elements, and
therefore want a system pretty like the current one, where a PACKAGE
begin and end delimits a set of META records from a given scheme. We also
have a 'DC.' on the front of each element for those that get lost due to
dodgy interpretation and reordering by the viewing software... (although
what we do about the latest version of Internet Assistant maliciously
deleting some of the elements is another matter...!)
Paul
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