Gavin wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > Hi Gavin, while doing some experiments with validating > > our intermediate xml, i came across some changes where you > > added a "rel=nofollow" to some of our external links. > > That does not exist in our document-v13 DTD, so validation > > is failing. That can be fixed by adding to that DTD. > > > > What is the rationale for doing that? > > See the discussion on this list started 6/11/2007 entitled 'rel not in DTD'.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/25141 > See also the email entitled 'Required links on all ASF PMC Pages' sent by > Jim to our private list also on 06/11/2007 of which the action was due to. Thanks for the mail tips, and the time to explain. > Apologies that I only put it in our v20 DTD as I had thought I had only > added the rel=nofollow to v20 xdocs or I seem to remember upgrading one or > two to v20 xdoc to allow for it. Certainly they would have passed validation > at the time of doing it. However, unfortunately, our internal intermediate format still uses document-v13. Also i bet many users still do. BTW, i added it today to that DTD. > Basically the crux of it is that our thanks page amongst others was giving > higher value links to non-sponsors whereas even bronze and silver sponsors > only get a nofollow link. > > Let me know if you need me to do anything. Obviously it is hard to draw the line. I do think that it is counter-productive to have it on links to our email archive discussions. -David > > Some of them are links to our own email discussions > > in various archives. > > > > -David
