Conference papers

Designing for retrieval II

Extensible Markup Language (XML) for the library

Sten Christensen

Humanities librarian, University of Sydney Library

XML allows for the creation of customised tag sets. The advantage of this is that web documents become more structured, unlike flat html documents which have been encoded largely for visual display. A structured document is better able to receive and provide useful information from sources encoded in other structured ways such as MACRO records. It can also be the archival source file for all forms of output (print, html, postscript and any new formats which may arise). This paper explains our use of XML to create library subject guides for the web and explores the implications for libraries of the new format.

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