Jon Knight wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Kevin Comerford wrote:
> > The situation you described regarding the deletion of <META> tag
> > elements in Word is a known problem.
Microsoft aren't the only culprits of this sort of <META> tag crime;
Netscape's Composer also mangles up properly formed DC meta tags.
For example, here's a bit of HTML before being opened in Composer:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME=package.begin CONTENT="Dublin Core">
<META NAME = DC.creator CONTENT = "(LANG = en) Tony Gill">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#creator">
<META NAME = DC.title CONTENT = "(LANG =en) Test Page">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#title">
<META NAME = DC.date.created CONTENT = "(SCHEME = ISO 31-1) 1997-09-12">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#date">
<META NAME="DC.language " CONTENT="(SCHEME="ISO 639") en">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#language">
<META NAME="DC.format" CONTENT="(SCHEME="IMT") text/html">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#format">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.imt HREF="http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc1521.html">
<META NAME=package.end CONTENT="Dublin Core">
<TITLE>Test Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<h1>Test Page</h1>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Now here's the same page after Composer has messed with it:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="package.begin" CONTENT="Dublin Core">
<META NAME="DC.creator" CONTENT="(LANG = en) Tony Gill">
<META NAME="DC.title" CONTENT="(LANG =en) Test Page">
<META NAME="DC.date.created" CONTENT="(SCHEME = ISO 31-1)
1997-09-12">
<META NAME="DC.language" CONTENT="(SCHEME=">
<META NAME="DC.format" CONTENT="(SCHEME=">
<META NAME="package.end" CONTENT="Dublin Core">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.01 [en] (Win95; I)
[Netscape]">
<TITLE>Test Page</TITLE>
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#creator">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#title">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#date">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#language">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc
HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#format">
<LINK REL=SCHEMA.imt HREF="http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc1521.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>
Test Page</H1>
body text
</BODY>
</HTML>
Bizarrely, LANGUAGE & FORMAT have lost their element values whereas
CREATOR, TITLE and DATE.created have remained intact.
T.
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