HTML5 and meta tags

[Jessie Keck]

Hi all,
An application that I work on implements the OpenSearch specification and we are adding HTML5 validity checks into our continuous integration testing suite. While implementing this I have noticed that the meta tags that we are using with the names totalResults, startIndex, and itemsPerPage are not registered values for the name attribute of a meta tag and are failing HTML5 validity. Is there some other way of putting the response metadata into the HTML while maintaining HTML5 validity? Otherwise I think that the OpenSearch meta extensions will need to be registered.

It appears that in order to register you extension for the HTML5 specification all you need to do is add the value for you name attribute, a brief description, and a link to the specification to this page: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions

I think if an entry in the above wiki was added w/ a link to http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#Response_metadata_in_HTML.2FXHTML then it may become HTML5 valid.

Would somebody in the OpenSearch community be willing to add this to that wiki page? If not I am more than happy to try and tackle it (although admittedly probably not the best candidate).

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
- Jessie Keck
Stanford University