Ross Singer wrote:
>
> Well, there's another perceived benefit, as well. MODS was *designed*
> as an XML schema and, as such, is theoretically more optimally
> designed for the sorts of things people want to do with XML (XSLT, of
> course, but also XQuery and whatnot).
>
So goes the theory.
Where has it been put into practice for library catalog data on a large
scale, not just experimentally or on a limited scope of tasks? I mean,
XML has been around for long enough now, and there are lots of people
who understand it (and some of them are quite committed), to expect
there to be a success story or two in this arena. More specifically,
is MODS a success story, does it confirm the theory in everyday
practice, in heavy-use scenarios?
B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Jun 22 2010 - 10:03:28 EDT