[uf-rest] ahah/xhtml and meta tags

[Justin Maxwell]

Hi all,

First post to the microformats list.  Many thanks to Ernie for  
turning my attention to this.

In my AHAH-driven application, the user accesses 200+ pages of small  
descriptive content in individual xhtml pages.  Since the URLs of  
these pages, although driven through the AHAH mechanism, are publicly  
accessible and therefore indexable by search engines, I've included  
meta tags in the head.

These meta tags include content-type, content-language, expires,  
author, home, index, and a refresh (in conjunction with a js  
redirect).  The redirects (js + meta) aren't executed when accessed  
via xmlhttprequest, but they are when a user hits the page directly.

So, on to my issue.

When the pages are loaded in via AHAH, so are the metas.  I can  
remove them via node manipulation, but I'd rather not have to add  
that step.  If the user selects all in firefox, then chooses "view  
selected source", he/she will see meta tags nested in the middle of  
page content.

1. Does this present a problem to accessibility?
2. Does this present a problem to functionality?
3. Should this set a precedent for the use of meta tags in AHAH  
source content?
(4. Is this the right forum for this discussion?)

Thanks in advance,
Justin Maxwell
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