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The current (30 May) issue of the New Scientist has an article by Glyn Moody entitled "New Dawn" about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) which is likely to have a considerable effect on the future of World Wide Web. The article mentions XML applications in chemical formulae and mathematical equations and, in a bit more detail, musical notation. Librarians are mentioned in connection with the Dublin Core metadata schema which it describes briefly. In addition to discussing the advantages of XML the article quotes a warning from Tim Brady, a vice-president at Yahoo, that the use of XML will make it easier for businesses to spam search engines to make their web pages rank more highly in search lists than they ought to. _____________________________________________________________________ Roy Davies | e-mail [log in to unmask] | University Library | | University of Exeter | http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/homepage.html | Stocker Road | | Exeter EX4 4PT | | UK | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%