How eScholarship Uses XML

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) provides a means by which the structure and meaning of a document can be specified by "tags". For example, the title of this document is: <title>How eScholarship Uses XML<title>. Because particular document segments are identifiable by software, sophisticated searching and display becomes possible. For example, when searching, it would be possible to specify that only document headings should be searched. Also, since the document is rendered for display at the moment of request, some display decisions can be made "on-the-fly", such as providing different versions that display better based on the user's operating system and web browser.