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What does EXTRAINFO mean? Just curious.
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Started conversation Oct 13, 2007
When you look at the source code of most Guide Entries, there's a little bit at the end before the closing tag called . What does the stuff in there do?
Before, I'd only ever seen very short EXTRAINFO pieces, like this:
Which is seen in these two EG entries: <./>test5168063</.> 
<./>test16062941</.>.
But in the EG entry <./>test3913427</.> we have all this code:
517309SuperMoo The Cow that is SUPER (Grand Duke of The Cows)00
What is the purpose of it?
By the way, when you edit an article (one of your own or, if you're a curator, an Edited Entry) the EXTRAINFO portion does not appear. Nor do the tags or the tags. The subject is written in a separate box.
TRiG.
What does EXTRAINFO mean? Just curious.
Jim Lynn Posted Oct 15, 2007
EXTRAINFO is auto-generated XML that's stored in the database, but is not directly edited (not with the h2g2 article editor, anyway). Some sites store, well, extra information in this section, as well as the small amount of auto-generated stuff that goes in there anyway.
Don't ever include an EXTRAINFO tag in an article, by the way - you'd probably break the article, or at the very least confuse the display.
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