Re: [htmltmpl] RFC: Template Tag Attributes

[Mathew R. <mat...@re...>]

> > > Inevitably, there will be certain pages using TMPL_INCLUDE tags.  =
I imagine
> > > that most of these will contain data that will not want to be =
searched for,
> > > such as footers, and therefore my filter program can simply ignore
> > > them.  However, I don't feel safe in making the blanket assumption =
that
> > > /all/ included files don't need to be searchable.
> >
> >Now you've lost me.  There's lots of stuff in an HTML page that
> >shouldn't be searched for.  Stuff like headers and footers in =
includes
> >is just the tip of the ice-berg.  Why obsess over this?
>=20
> I want to give content authors more control over what portions of a=20
> document are searched for.

This is a common mistake that information creators think 'is a good =
thing'...  The web got popular for a number of reasons - one of them =
being "full text indexing of all content" (including =
headers/footers/etc).

The point is that, it is the user of the system that wants to find the =
information - not the author telling you what you can and cant search =
for.   Classic example -> books used to have (and still do) an index in =
the last couple of pages of the book, yet the user could never find what =
they were looking for; until the book made it onto CDROM at which point =
full-text-searching was possible.

-> Full text searching is a _much better_ solution to search problems =
than indexing on what YOU think is the information they want.

Mathew

PS.  This means, use a spider.. or even better use google via a =
"site:..." search.