Ere Maijala wrote: > And my response was to Jonathan simply trying to state that encoding the > stuff in XML doesn't make a difference. I agree with you that there are > interoperability issues, but there are also examples in the library > world where stuff just works even when XML is involved, and the > receiving party can get the data intact. Actually, it was my first message replying to Mark's message. I didn't mean to imply that Jonathan didn't know what he's talking about. Nor did I mean to imply I'd support embedding HTML in MARC. Only that it wouldn't cause trouble for OAI-PMH etc. provided they handle XML properly. --Ere