Name
SCHEME — NN n/a IE n/a HTML 4
Synopsis
SCHEME=”identifier"
Optional
Provides one more organizational layer to meta-data supplied with a
document. For example, a university campus with several libraries
might generate documents associated with each of the libraries.
Assuming that a browser is equipped to interpret meta-data about
this, one approach at assembling the tags is to create a separate
NAME
attribute value for each library:
NAME="law"
, NAME="main"
,
NAME="engineering"
, and so on. But it may also be
necessary to associate these NAME
values with a
specific university. The SCHEME
attribute could be
called into service to align the meta-data with a particular
university: SCHEME="Harvard"
. Now, other
university library systems could use the same organization of
NAME
attributes, but the SCHEME
attribute clearly associates a given META
element
with a specific university and library. Again, this assumes that the
browser is empowered to do something special with this
meta-knowledge.
Example
<META SCHEME="Chicago" NAME="restaurant" CONTENT="1029">
Value
Any string identifier.
Default
None.
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