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Most web pages have meta tags. Somewhere on the site, there is contact info (address, email address). None of this info is centralized in a single, simple to find spot.
- People have gotten really random with where they put them. Some people put them AFTER JavaScript and/or make the meta tags hard to find. A card.xml file could get read by a very small and simple application. You could even
make a client-side spider written in JavaScript.
- Meta tags have little provision for providing content info (like street address, etc.)
- The associates function can make a relay-race function into a way to find a whole slough of websites without relying on spiders to crawl through text and parse out URLs.
I have set up something I call "Card XML." It's an XML file that resides in the root of the web server directory. It lists the website address, its title, information like description and keywords. It also lists address, phone, fax and other contact information.
I added a field called "associates." I hope that these associated links link to other sites with Card XML files. That way, one Card XML file can pass you onto other sites and create a network of Card XML data.
I haven't come across the equivalent of this XML concept. If there is one, I would like to see it.
A page with more info is at:
http://www.epico.info/makecardxml.html
- Mike DeWolfe
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