On the one hand I tend to agree that markup shouldn't be part of metadata. On the other, if there are places where DSpace needs to write out, say, XML with metadata as attribute values or element content then it should be encoding it properly no matter what those values are.
And, strangely, I seem to have a third hand: dc.description.abstract and its brethren in other schemae. Now, *I* think that an abstract should be a single brief block of text -- three, perhaps four sentences. I've been shown many times that others disagree: they write three or four *paragraphs*, often with various kinds of emphasis or even complex layout expectations. We've compromised by accepting paragraph breaks (since we have one third-party customized DSpace that already has code to turn "\n\n" into "</p><p>" and ensure that it's wrapped properly). Abstracts seem to be the one exception that tests the rule. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
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