I think Ed Summers has some of these in an XML format that's generated by a Perl program that he wrote a long time ago for something else. Or, am I misremembering, Ed? Still, it would be good to ask LC directly as someone else recommended... I think such a thing would be useful; having an official version would be nice. Kevin On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Houghton,Andrew <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Does anybody know whether the MARC formats at: > > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/classification/> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/community/> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/> > > are encoded in an XML format that one might use for processing/validation of the leader, field tags, indicator codes, subfield codes, field and subfield repeatability, and field and subfield requiredness. Something akin to the codepoint table in XML at: > > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/codetables.xml> > > > Thanks, Andy. >