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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Listen...  What you hear from over here is the sound of a very heavy sigh
> coming from a computer type who really wants to help improve the way library
> data is used in a networked environment, but they can't convince their own
> to modify the way they encode information.

See also

Fiander, David J. "Applying XML to the Bibliographic Description."
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 33, no. 2 (2001): 17-28.

Fiander, David J., and D. Grant Campbell. "An XML Definition for an
ISBD-Based Encoding Scheme." Journal of Internet Cataloging 6, no. 4
(2003): 29-58.

Which is what happens when a computer type starts de novo with the
cataloguing standards and builds simple data structures.