Robots
In HTML, the robots
meta tag
tells search engines and other robots whether they’re allowed to
index a page. Walter Underwood has proposed the following processing
instruction as an equivalent for XML documents:
<?robots index="yes" follow="no"?>
Robots will look for this in the prolog of any XML document
they encounter. The syntax of this particular processing instruction
is two pseudo-attributes, one named index
and one named follow
, whose values are either yes
or no
. If the index
attribute has the value yes
, then this page will be indexed by a
search-engine robot. If index
has
the value no
, then it won’t be.
Similarly, if follow
has the
value yes
, then links from this
document will be followed. If follow
has the value no
, then they won’t be.
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