page link name

[Jeff Thies]

I'd like to embed navigation instructions in html.

This would be so that these pages could be spidered and page links name
could be extracted and navigation generated.

I'm thinking of something along these lines:

<meta name="page link" content="About Us">
<meta name="page directory" content="root">

***********
<meta name="page link" content="Info 1">
<meta name="page directory" content="Info">


############### ###

This would generate navigation something like this:

<ul style="display: inline">
<li>Info
<ul>
<li>Info 1<li>
<li>Info 2<li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>About Us</li>
</ul>

Surely something like this has been done before.

Ideas on embedding nav instructions???

Cheers,
Jeff

[Andy Holmes]

Re: page link name

Jeff Thies wrote:[color=blue]
> I'd like to embed navigation instructions in html.
>
> This would be so that these pages could be spidered and page links name
> could be extracted and navigation generated.
>
> I'm thinking of something along these lines:
>
> <meta name="page link" content="About Us">
> <meta name="page directory" content="root">
>
> ***********
> <meta name="page link" content="Info 1">
> <meta name="page directory" content="Info">
>
>
> ############### ###
>
> This would generate navigation something like this:
>
> <ul style="display: inline">
> <li>Info
> <ul>
> <li>Info 1<li>
> <li>Info 2<li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li>About Us</li>
> </ul>
>
> Surely something like this has been done before.
>
> Ideas on embedding nav instructions???
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
>[/color]

See:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-LINK

Or more specifically:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rev

And:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links

-Andy

[Adrienne]

Re: page link name

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jeff Thies" <nospam@nospam. net>
writing in news:vLtab.3727 2$NM1.33819@new sread2.news.atl .earthlink.net:
[color=blue]
> I'd like to embed navigation instructions in html.
>
> This would be so that these pages could be spidered and page links name
> could be extracted and navigation generated.
>
> I'm thinking of something along these lines:
>
><meta name="page link" content="About Us"> <meta name="page directory"
> content="root">
>
> ***********
><meta name="page link" content="Info 1"> <meta name="page directory"
> content="Info">
>
>
> ############### ###
>
> This would generate navigation something like this:
>
><ul style="display: inline"> <li>Info <ul>
> <li>Info 1<li>
> <li>Info 2<li>
> </ul>
></li>
><li>About Us</li>
></ul>
>
> Surely something like this has been done before.
>
> Ideas on embedding nav instructions???
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>[/color]

I think you might be looking for the LINK element -

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK

--
Adrienne Boswell
Please respond to the group so others can share

http://www.arbpen.com

[Jeff Thies]

Re: page link name


"Andy Holmes" <aholmes84spaml ess@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:HHuab.9830 25$ro6.19330740 @news2.calgary. shaw.ca...[color=blue]
> Jeff Thies wrote:[color=green]
> > I'd like to embed navigation instructions in html.
> >
> > This would be so that these pages could be spidered and page links name
> > could be extracted and navigation generated.
> >
> > I'm thinking of something along these lines:
> >
> > <meta name="page link" content="About Us">
> > <meta name="page directory" content="root">
> >
> > ***********
> > <meta name="page link" content="Info 1">
> > <meta name="page directory" content="Info">
> >[/color][/color]

<snip>[color=blue]
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/...html#edef-LINK
>
> Or more specifically:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rev
>
> And:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links[/color]

Thanks. I'm a bit confused about this though.

There's a wide range of attributes for link:

id, class (document-wide identifiers)
lang (language information), dir (text direction)
title (element title)
style (inline style information )
onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover,
onmousemove, onmouseout,
onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup (intrinsic events )
href, hreflang, type, rel, rev (links and anchors)
target (target frame information)
media (header style information)
charset(charact er encodings)

The style, event, title and dir are a bit puzzling. How would those be used?
What about type?

It looks like multiple attributes can be used in a link tag.And it looks
like you can add your own attributes on top of those. Is that right?

BTW, is the link tag getting much use? It seems like a wide open element!

Cheers,
Jeff
[color=blue]
>
> -Andy
>
>[/color]

[Eric Cartman]

Re: page link name

"Jeff Thies" <nospam@nospam. net> wrote in message news:<vLtab.372 72$NM1.33819@ne wsread2.news.at l.earthlink.net >...[color=blue]
> I'd like to embed navigation instructions in html.
>
> This would be so that these pages could be spidered and page links name
> could be extracted and navigation generated.
>
> I'm thinking of something along these lines:
>
> <meta name="page link" content="About Us">
> <meta name="page directory" content="root">
>
> ***********
> <meta name="page link" content="Info 1">
> <meta name="page directory" content="Info">
>
>
> ############### ###
>
> This would generate navigation something like this:
>
> <ul style="display: inline">
> <li>Info
> <ul>
> <li>Info 1<li>
> <li>Info 2<li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li>About Us</li>
> </ul>
>
> Surely something like this has been done before.
>
> Ideas on embedding nav instructions???
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff[/color]


Take a look at xhtml

EC
..

[Andy Holmes]

Re: page link name

Jeff Thies wrote:[color=blue]
> "Andy Holmes" <aholmes84spaml ess@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:HHuab.9830 25$ro6.19330740 @news2.calgary. shaw.ca...
>[color=green]
>>Jeff Thies wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>I'd like to embed navigation instructions in html.
>>>
>>>This would be so that these pages could be spidered and page links name
>>>could be extracted and navigation generated.
>>>
>>>I'm thinking of something along these lines:
>>>
>>><meta name="page link" content="About Us">
>>><meta name="page directory" content="root">
>>>
>>>********** *
>>><meta name="page link" content="Info 1">
>>><meta name="page directory" content="Info">
>>>[/color][/color]
>
> <snip>
>[color=green]
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/...html#edef-LINK
>>
>>Or more specifically:
>>
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rev
>>
>>And:
>>
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links[/color]
>
>
> Thanks. I'm a bit confused about this though.
>
> There's a wide range of attributes for link:
>
> id, class (document-wide identifiers)
> lang (language information), dir (text direction)
> title (element title)
> style (inline style information )
> onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover,
> onmousemove, onmouseout,
> onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup (intrinsic events )
> href, hreflang, type, rel, rev (links and anchors)
> target (target frame information)
> media (header style information)
> charset(charact er encodings)
>
> The style, event, title and dir are a bit puzzling. How would those be used?
> What about type?
>
> It looks like multiple attributes can be used in a link tag.And it looks
> like you can add your own attributes on top of those. Is that right?
>
> BTW, is the link tag getting much use? It seems like a wide open element!
>
>[/color]

Well, a person could write an article on just those attributes and how
they're used, but what you're looking for is something like this:

<link href="index.htm l" rel="index.html " rev="section" type="text/html"
media="screen">

But I've found the definitions of link-types to be pretty ambiguous and
don't often use them for that purpose. This is what you were asking for
though, I believe, so I'll leave it up to you to interpret the
link-types ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links ).

What you will find <link> used most for however is including
stylesheets, like so:

<link href="style.css " rel="stylesheet " type="text/css">


-Andy

[Andy Holmes]

Re: page link name

[color=blue]
> <link href="index.htm l" rel="index.html " rev="section" type="text/html"
> media="screen">[/color]

should be infact:

<link href="index.htm l" rel="index" rev="section" type="text/html"
media="screen">

Sorry, for the late night typo.

-Andy

[Toby A Inkster]

Re: page link name

Jeff Thies wrote:
[color=blue]
> There's a wide range of attributes for link:
>
> id, class (document-wide identifiers)
> lang (language information), dir (text direction)
> title (element title)
> style (inline style information )
> onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover,
> onmousemove, onmouseout,
> onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup (intrinsic events )
> href, hreflang, type, rel, rev (links and anchors)
> target (target frame information)
> media (header style information)
> charset(charact er encodings)[/color]

You probably only want to worry about:

href - the URL for the document you are linking to.
rel - the relation that URL has to this one (e.g. Next)
title - the title of that page.

Others that may come in handy:

media - use this especially f you're linking to a non-(X)HTML page.
hreflang - the language of the page you're linking to.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me - http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/?id=132

[David Dorward]

Re: page link name

Eric Cartman wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Ideas on embedding nav instructions???[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Take a look at xhtml[/color]

Why? The 1.x series offers nothing (in the way of navigation) that isn't in
HTML 4.0, and the draft 2.0 with navigation lists won't be usable for about
a decade.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

[Toby A Inkster]

Re: page link name

David Dorward wrote:
[color=blue]
> Why? The 1.x series offers nothing (in the way of navigation) that isn't in
> HTML 4.0, and the draft 2.0 with navigation lists won't be usable for about
> a decade.[/color]

The XHTML 2.0 draft is *already* usable in Opera and Gecko if an
appropriate style sheet is provided.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me - http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/?id=132
playing://counting_crows/hard_candy_uk_e dition/02_american_gir ls.ogg

[EC]

Re: page link name

Toby A Inkster wrote:[color=blue]
> David Dorward wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Why? The 1.x series offers nothing (in the way of navigation) that[/color][/color]
isn't in[color=blue][color=green]
> > HTML 4.0, and the draft 2.0 with navigation lists won't be usable[/color][/color]
for about[color=blue][color=green]
> > a decade.[/color]
>
> The XHTML 2.0 draft is *already* usable in Opera and Gecko if an
> appropriate style sheet is provided.
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> Contact Me - http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/?id=132
> playing://counting_crows/hard_candy_uk_e dition/02_american_gir ls.ogg[/color]