MCF - Meta Content Framework
Meta Content Framework is a proposed standard data definition language which is
an application of XML, which itself is a subset of
SGML. The purpose of
MCF is to define a open standard for describing data content which includes a
data structure definition format. The data content is information
typically found in email headers, web site descriptions and ftp directory structures.
Netscape Proposes Metadata Framework is an article at WebWeek that discusses
the proposed MCF standard.
Netscape Press release
announces the submission of MCF to W3C as a standard.
An MCF Tutorial written by
the two leading authors of MCF, Tim Bray and R.V. Guha.
MCF Data Model is
defined in this advanced paper written by Tim Bray and R.V. Guha. This document provides the
technical specifications for data model and the syntax of the MCF language.
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