Swixml, is a small GUI generatingengine for Java applications and applets. Graphical User Interfaces are described in XML documents that are parsed at runtime and rendered into javax.swing objects.
Alex highlights how librarians misuse xml in relation to marc. There's a deeper theme that applies to xml schemas outside the library world as well that I've struggled with. Codification with angle brackets doesn't get you much apart from a feature checkbox in the product marketing. Semantics in a codified manner are a very powerful thing that reduces development time and complexity. Schema's and xml developed like this fail the fundamental test when adopting a new technology, does it make things easier and simpler?
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xISSN is a new Web service that supports management of serials information. Users can supply an ISSN to find out about any predecessor, successor, and alternate ISSNs and titles, and find the electronic ISSN for a print title or vice versa.
You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser.
JISC TechWatch's recent report on metadata for digital libraries, by Richard Gartner, explores how high quality metadata frameworks are critical if libraries are to provide seamless searching and retrieval technologies that can hold their own alongside es