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Hi Miguel.  We do something very similar with the applications I work on.
We use HTML comments to section out content we want to parse for one thing
or another...

<!-- start content section -->
Blah Blah Blah
<!-- End content section -->

This is an easy, and completely valid way to section off content to be
used by external applications looking at your code.

-Matt

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Miguel Mingo wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> I'm new at the list, so I think I should start saying who am I.
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> My name is Miguel Mingo, and I'm working at a big financial company
> (Internet and Intranet department). I knew about W3C since I was studying at
> university, and now I try to follow the standards and recommendations of W3C
> for proffesional and personal projects.
>
> We have a search engine (external) that indexes the site's pages, in order
> to provide the search functionality inside the site. The way this search
> engine excludes part of the code is the main problem. It uses a special
> <meta> tag to do that.
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> <html>
> 	<head>
> 	...
> 	</head>
> 	<body>
> 		...
> 		<meta name="index" content="no">
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> 		[...] (NO indexed code, i.e. navigation menu)
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> 		<meta name="index" content="yes">
> 		...
> 	</body>
> </html>
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> The meta tags inside body arent allowed, so the code from _all_ of out sites
> doesn't validate.
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> We're looking for a solution, and the owners of the search engine have told
> us which tag we want to use instead of meta. I don't know which one choose
> (if there's one), but must be a valid one, and not deprecated (or near
> deprecated).
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> Any help whould be very appreciated.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Miguel Mingo Santibáñez
> Tecnología y Sistemas Corporativos
> Internet e Intranet
> email: miguel.mingo@grupobbva.com
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Re: Neutral tags (like meta inside body).