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The HypertextMarkupLanguage (HTML) is the de facto standard for creating WorldWideWeb documents. Although designed primarily as a presentation format, the HTML standard does provide a mechanism for describing properties of a document in the form of the meta element.
The meta element has two attributes (name and description) which describe document properties. The HTML specification does not in itself define a set of legal meta data properties [1]: the meaning of a property and the set of legal values for that property can be defined in a reference lexicon called a profile.
<HEAD profile="http://www.acme.com/profiles/core"> <TITLE>How to complete Memorandum cover sheets</TITLE> <META name="author" content="John Doe"> <META name="copyright" content="© 1997 Acme Corp."> <META name="keywords" content="corporate,guidelines,cataloging"> <META name="date" content="1994-11-06T08:49:37+00:00"> </HEAD>
Several search engines, such as AltaVista, use common properties such as author, copyright, and keywords defined in meta elements to help index HTML documents.
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