Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

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.