Re: [htdig] Preventing indexing HTML code in documents

[Joe R. J. <jj...@cl...>]

On 25 Aug 2005, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> Date: 25 Aug 2005 18:46:09 -0500
> From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd...@dd...>
> To: htd...@li...
> Subject: [htdig] Preventing indexing HTML code in documents
> 
> Except they're asking if there's a way to not index the HTML code in
> documents, just the text between tags.  The particular issue, I
> believe, is a list of keywords in a SELECT which appears as part of
> the navigation on every page, and hence makes every page a hit for
> those keywords.  I suspect there's no answer to this in current
> versions; if there is I haven't sniffed a trace of it in the FAQ or
> documentation.  But, is there?  As a possible long-term suggestion,
> what about some kind of meta tag that would tell htdig not to index
> things between them?  This would give people a lot of control on how
> site-specific local searches worked.

See http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#noindex_start

Regards,

Joe
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