# Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
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From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Walter Lewis [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 3:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML mark-up in MARC records

Doran, Michael D wrote:
> Is anybody else embedding HTML mark-up code in MARC records [1]?  We're currently including an "<img>" tag in some MARC Holdings records in the 856z [2].   I'm inclined to think that HTML mark-up does not belong anywhere in MARC records, but am looking for other opinions (preferably with the reasoning behind the opinions), both pro and con.
>
One of the things I found in some specific instances where I was
generating Marc-like records on the fly from records that could have
embedded HTML (i.e. MARBI marc community output) was that a variety of
the targets that could read the data didn't know what to do with the
<tags> and escaped them before passing them to the web client.  In
short, consider the downstream partners who may try and render the HTML
and what interfaces they are using.  Not everyone views the record via a
browser ... :)

Walter Lewis