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Re: Re: Stylesheet RFC -- "description" meta tag in html
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Stylesheet RFC -- "description" meta tag in html
- From: "Eve L. Maler" <elm at east dot sun dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:51:20 -0500
- References: <Adam Di Carlo's message of "21 Dec 1999 11:24:26 -0500"><199911300230.VAA16955@dhcpp8449.resnet.oberlin.edu><oan1rpuitl.fsf@arroz.fake><19991205204438.A13212@dhcpp8449.resnet.oberlin.edu><oahfhcl0sl.fsf_-_@arroz.fake>
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I would say to use the keywords in the keywordset, which are flat and can
be concatenated and separated with commas.
Eve
At 12:24 PM 12/21/99 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> was heard to say:
>| Would it be possible to provide some means for populating a
>| "description" HTML Meta tag? We already have a means for populating
>| the "keyword" meta tag, and "description" is useful for all the same
>| reasons. That is, it is useful for search indexing, see
>| <URL:http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html>.
>
>That looks like an abstract to me, Adam. Perhaps <abstract><simpara>,
>if present, should go in the meta description field?
>
> Cheers,
> norm
>
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