Microsoft KB Archive/242552

= Search: Script Comments Appear in the Document Abstract =

Article ID: 242552

Article Last Modified on 7/15/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition

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This article was previously published under Q242552



SYMPTOMS
When you view Site Server 3.0 Search query results, the document abstract contains comments that are inside SCRIPT tags. For example, the following document: Test 

 Hello World! Produces an abstract that looks like: ') document.write(' ') document.close // --> > Hello World!

However, the the abstract should look like:

Hello World!



CAUSE
In some cases, the Site Server HTML filter does not recognize the text as being inside the script tags, and treats the text as part of the document body.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Site Server 3.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

219292 How to Obtain the Latest Site Server 3.0 Service Pack



WORKAROUND
Specify a document description for HTML documents so Search does not attempt to create a description based on the document body. Use the following META tag to create the document description:





STATUS
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Service Pack 3.

Additional query words: search description meta abstract

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbqfe KB242552

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