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At 02:53 PM 6/11/2001 -0400, Dick Thaxter wrote: >My notes from the Valentine's Day meeting in NYC said that Harvard >requested a "TYPE" attribute for <div>. I remember agreeing verbally and >seeing the kinds of uses you suggest for it. In building our <div> trees >for complex multimedia objects, LC is following a controlled vocabulary >but putting the text into the div LABEL. So far that's working OK but >most of our subobjects have generic names that are essentially >'types'--container, disc side, booklet. If we wanted to describe >something that had both a generic description--say, 'booklet' as well as >a title--say, "Complete Discography of Spinal Tap"--I think lumping it all >into a LABEL attribute is not as helpful it might be to give booklet as >the type and the title as the label. Unless there are loud objections, I will probably go ahead and reinstate the TYPE attribute, under the 'you don't have to use it if you don't want to' theory. Jerome McDonough [log in to unmask] Digital Library Development Team Leader Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 (212) 998-2425