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Warden, Matt
mwarden at odyssey-design.com
Sun Apr 15 15:02:26 CDT 2001
> If I might make a suggestion. The current structure doesn't really make
much
> sense from a semantic POV. The tags don't really say anything about the
> content in them.
>
> BODY is probably not as good a tag name as, say, ARTICLE
>
> Maybe a format like
>
> <evolt>
> <article time="27-MAR-01" author="gainef" id="9278">\
> <title>Why 'Bobby Approved' is not Enough</title>
>
<link>http://www.evolt.org/article/headline/4090/9278/index.html</link>
> </article >
> <article time="20-MAR-01" author="mantruc" id="9179">
> <title>Page Title Labeling</title>
>
<link>http://www.evolt.org/article/headline/4090/9179/index.html</link>
> </article >
> </evolt>
I would suggest <headline> instead. It's not an article. And <uri> rather
than <link>.
The only problem is that some people are already using the current format,
and those people's stylesheets will fail if we change the structure as
dramatically as suggested here.
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mattwarden
mattwarden.com
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