Re: [htdig-dev] Text within an anchor tag/hyperlink being indexed -- why?

[Brian W. <bw...@st...>]

At 02:03 3/10/2002, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>According to Jessica Biola:
> > Actually, to append to this problem I'm running into,
> > it doesn't appear to be the text WITHIN the anchor tag
> > -- rather, there is text between the beginning <A> and
> > the ending </A> of the anchor tag that contains the
> > word "large".
>
>Ah!  Well that certainly explains why I was unable to reproduce the
>problem earlier, based on your first message.  Yes, indexing text
>between the <A ...> and </A> tags as link description text for the
>referenced document is normal behaviour for htdig.


This is a common XML/SGML terminology problem - people get "tag" and 
"element" confused

  "<a href='blah'>" is an "A" start *tag*
  "</a>" is an "A" end *tag*

  "<a href='blah'>LARGE</a>" is an "A" *element*, which is made up of a
     start tag, content and end tag.

So: correct, the "A" tag does not contain "LARGE", but the "A" element does.

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