----- "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