----- "Walter Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

  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 ... :)
> 

One downstream client that embedded HTML-in-MARC will almost certainly cause grief for is an OAI-PMH harvester. Unless your OAI data provider CDATAs this markup, the exposed XML will likely be invalid or at the very least un-namespaced. 

Same goes for MARC records emitted by unapi/ATOM/etc., I would imagine.

Mark