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David Abrahamson wrote to the editors of HTML 4.0:
[...]
> ISO-HTML Editor's Comments on W3C HTML 4.0
[...]
>
> <META> element
> --------------
>
> We suggest adding the following description of name/value pairs:
>
> Each <META> element specifies a name/value pair. If multiple <META>
> elements are provided with the same name, their combined contents -
> concatenated as a comma-separated list - is the value that will be
> associated with that name.
I strongly disagree:
<meta name="DC.creator" content="Gilbert">
<meta name="DC.creator" content="Sullivan">
is not the same as:
<meta name="DC.creator" content="Gilbert, Sullivan">
Though some implementations may carry out such concatenation, it is a
short-cut which is neither normative nor advised.
> Note:
> * The <META> element should not be used where a specific element,
> such as <TITLE>, would be more appropriate. Rather than specifying a
> <META> element with a URL as the value of the CONTENT attribute,
> use a <LINK> element instead.
I don't understand the relationship between the two sentences of this
paragraph and also don't understand the first sentence. I strongly
disagree with the second sentence. "Dublin Core Metadata for Simple
Resource Description" (draft-kunze-dc-00.txt) explicitly states that
the elements DESCRIPTION, IDENTIFIER and RIGHTS may take URLs as their
values.
> * The method by which the server extracts document meta-information is
> unspecified and not mandatory. The <META> element only provides an
> extensible mechanism for identifying and embedding such document
> meta-information - how it may be used is up to the individual
> server implementation and HTML user agent.
I don't understand the reference to "the server". Which server?
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