# Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # [email protected] # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walter Lewis [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 3:47 PM To: [email protected] 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
