HEAD

SUL & AIR Conventions

In SUL/AIR the only elements in HEAD are TITLE and optionally a single line like the following: <link rev="made" href="mailto:YOURADDRESS@YOURHOST.stanford.edu">, which some browsers can use to allow the reader to send a comment to you by email.

The HEAD contains general information about the document. The contents of the HEAD are not displayed as part of the document text: the displayed material is found within the BODY. Consequently, only certain mark-up elements can be placed within the HEAD. These are:

TITLE The title of the document
ISINDEX Usually placed in the HEAD by the server or a server script/program to indicate that a document is searchable.
NEXTID A parameter used by automated HTML editors to create unique identifiers for the documents.
LINK Defines the relationship(s) between this document and another or others. A document can have several LINK elements.
BASE A record of the original URL of the document: this allows you to move the document to a new directory (or even a new site) and have relative URLs access the appropriate place with respect to the original URL.
META Embeds document meta-information not defined by other HTML elements.

Example

<HEAD>
<TITLE> Goofy Stuff Index Page </TITLE>
<NEXTID N=z33>
<BASE HREF="http://www.somewhere.org/stuff/blob.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
..... text of the document
</BODY>

Content

base -- Base context document
isindex -- Document is a searchable index to corpus of documents
title -- Title of document

Inclusions

link -- Link from this document
meta -- Generic meta-information

Tag Minimization: Open Tag: OPTIONAL
Close Tag: OPTIONAL

No ATTRIBUTES
See CONTENT DECLARATION

Parent Elements

html -- HyperText Markup Language Document

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