meta tag problem

[Vicent Mas-2]

Hello,

In my (dispatcher) website I'd like to use meta tags for giving keywords to my
HTML pages. I know I can use the contract siteinfo-meta and generate a set of
keywords that will be used in every page of the website. But, is there a way
for specifying different keywords for different pages? I've tried to use the
meta element  inside header elements in my xml sources but it doesn't work.
Maybe I'm using this meta element in a wrong way or maybe it is intended for
something different, I don't know. Indeed reading

http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.dtdx.html#meta

it is difficult for me to say what it is useful for.

Help will be appreciated. TIA

Vicent
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[Sina K. Heshmati]

"Vicent Mas" <uvemas@...> said:

> In my (dispatcher) website I'd like to use meta tags for giving keywords to my
> HTML pages. I know I can use the contract siteinfo-meta and generate a set of
> keywords that will be used in every page of the website. But, is there a way
> for specifying different keywords for different pages? I've tried to use the
> meta element  inside header elements in my xml sources but it doesn't work.
> Maybe I'm using this meta element in a wrong way or maybe it is intended for
> something different, I don't know. Indeed reading
>
> http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.dtdx.html#meta
>
> it is difficult for me to say what it is useful for.
>
> Help will be appreciated. TIA

It's perfectly reasonable to expect <meta/> tags defined in source XML files to be copied to the HTML output but AFAIK, it's currently fairly complicated to ensure this transition of elements using the dispatcher.

You might, however want to write a simple structurer for those particular pages where you need the <meta/> tags. Please let us know should you need more help with this issue.

BTW, I don't see @content defined for <meta/> in the DTD you referred to; would meta tags be useful without @content?

Sina

[Vicent Mas-2]

> "Vicent Mas" <uvemas@...> said:

> > In my (dispatcher) website I'd like to use meta tags for giving keywords
> > to my HTML pages. I know I can use the contract siteinfo-meta and
> > generate a set of keywords that will be used in every page of the
> > website. But, is there a way for specifying different keywords for
> > different pages? I've tried to use the meta element  inside header
> > elements in my xml sources but it doesn't work. Maybe I'm using this meta
> > element in a wrong way or maybe it is intended for something different, I
> > don't know. Indeed reading
> >
> > http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.dtdx.html#meta
> >
> > it is difficult for me to say what it is useful for.
> >
> > Help will be appreciated. TIA
>
> It's perfectly reasonable to expect <meta/> tags defined in source XML
>  files to be copied to the HTML output but AFAIK, it's currently fairly
>  complicated to ensure this transition of elements using the dispatcher.
>

:-(

> You might, however want to write a simple structurer for those particular
>  pages where you need the <meta/> tags. Please let us know should you need
>  more help with this issue.
>

Well, I'm not sure it is worth to do so much work. I expected it was easy to
achieve my goal (in other words, I expected to be able to use meta elements
inside header elements in my xml sources). If it is not the case I can live
with the current situation.

> BTW, I don't see @content defined for <meta/> in the DTD you referred to;
>  would meta tags be useful without @content?
>

Right, @content is not defined so I assumed that #PCDATA in
<meta @someattr..>#PCDATA</meta>
would be used somehow as @content. But apparently it is not. This is why I
don't know how to use <meta/> tags.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Vicent
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