On Wed, 30 May 2001, Robert Orenstein wrote:
> > htdig -? (with any program)
> > gives the help message and a version number.
>
> I'm not seeing the expected result:
>
> % htdig -?
> htdig: No match.
Oh dear. You have a *very* old version. It's definitely older than
3.1.0b1. I'd upgrade to 3.1.5 ASAP--you'll need to reindex, but it will
fix a lot of problems. For one, older versions don't have the same
attributes, naturally. :-)
> Geoff, how would the comment tags affect the results?
Comment tags in HTML can be multi-line. So anything inside a comment tag
is ignored--but to do this, ht://Dig is picky about what is and what is
not a comment tag.
> And does htdig
> follow the simple algorithm of ignoring anything between < and >, and
No. For example <img> ALT text, META descriptions and so on are
content. And tags certainly affect how text is indexed (e.g. the various
_factor attributes).
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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