On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 21:44 +0900, Gav.... wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thorsten Scherler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 6 November 2007 8:28 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: rel not in DTD > > > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 19:54 +0900, Gav.... wrote: > > > Apologies if I'm missing something obvious here, but the attribute 'rel' > > > that belongs to element 'a' is not in our v1.3 or 2.0 DTDs. > > > > http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v13.html > > http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.html > > > > Search for fork. > > Thanks Thorsten, but I don't see how that is relevant to what I am trying to > do. > > Consider :- > > <a href="http://www.example.com> Example.com </a> > > In some cases to stop search engines following the link, giving it ranking > points etc we need to be outputting instead : > > <a href="http://www.example.com rel="nofollow"> Example.com </a> > > W3C specify this in html 4.01 through to current proposed xhtml2 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-A > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/xhtml2-doctype.html > > The value of rel="" can be many things, search engines decided that if it > contained "nofollow" then no weightings would be applied to the link and > it would not be spidered out from that point. > > See also http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html > > There are also other attributes missing from our DTD, which makes me wonder > if I missed a point somewhere, or maybe just because a documentation > framework such as Forrest minimized and left out those that more than likely > would not be used.
Ah, ok now I get you. This is in the context of the recent mail from Jim, right? I am not sure, but I would guess that till now nobody needed this attribute and this is why we left it out. I do not think there is any concerns to implement it. salu2 > > Gav... > > > > > salu2 > > > > > > > > Therefore Forrest and any other site can not use rel="follow" without > > > breaking the DTD and therefore a site build. > > > > > > Should we add this to the DTD - this would affect 0.8 and 0.9 users > > which > > > I think is fine and probably necessary. > > > > > > Or is there another approach to this? > > > > > > Gav... > > -- > > Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org > > Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions
