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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