The problems you describe seem to all be due to limitations of the
indexing software you are using. I say get something else that doesn't
have those limitations. We have DC in HTML with repeating fields and
content over 256 characters and have no trouble at all. Your other
alternative is to work with Verity to fix their software. But the tool
should accommodate the data -- NOT the other way around.
Roy Tennant
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Thomas Hofmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have encountered a few problems with META tags embedded in the HEAD
> section of HTML documents and harvesting those with a search engines.
>
> We implemented DC in another 2500 pages on our web site. Some of the
> content was more than 256 characters long and some of the DC elements
> where repeated (e.g. DC.Description) .
>
> We are using Verity Search97 (Information Server 3.01). Unfortunately
> the repeated elements aren't supported at all. Meaning if I have the
> Subject element repeated 3 times I can only search over the content
> of the first occurrence.
>
> Also we pre-process all documents returned from a search before they
> are send to the user (include navigation bars etc.) . The processor
> has some problems with content longer than 256 characters as well as
> repeated elements.
>
> Luckily their are work arounds due to Search97's extreme flexibility
> (e.g. embedded XML in the HTML document). But since the Dublin Core User
> Guide doesn't mention anything regarding a character limit or
> potential problems with repeating META tags I was wondering what the
> recommendations where based on?
>
> * Is there a standard (content length, repeatability) outlined in the
> HTML 4.0 specification?
> * Has anyone else had similar problems?
> * Has the implementers group ever taken a look at this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
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>
> Thomas Hofmann
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