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Book Format (XML)

The XML serialization for books and book chapters — the same vocabulary as the Book KEV format, in XML.

The Book XML format expresses books, chapters, proceedings and reports as XML. Its identifier and namespace is info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:book.

Format identifier

info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:book

Element structure

The root element is <book>. Its children are optional and must appear in this order:

  1. <authors>: a container of <author> (with <aulast>, <aufirst>, <auinit>, <auinit1>, <auinitm>, <ausuffix>), <au> and <aucorp>
  2. <btitle>, <atitle>, <title>
  3. <place>, <pub>, <date> (a year), <edition>
  4. <tpages>, <spage>, <epage>, <pages>
  5. <series>, <isbn>, <issn>, <bici>
  6. <genre>

Worked example: a book chapter

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ctx:context-object
    xmlns:ctx="info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:ctx"
    xmlns:bk="info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:book"
    version="Z39.88-2004">
  <ctx:referent>
    <ctx:identifier>info:doi/10.1016/S1574-6526(07)03003-9</ctx:identifier>
    <ctx:metadata-by-val>
      <ctx:format>info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:book</ctx:format>
      <ctx:metadata>
        <bk:book>
          <bk:authors>
            <bk:author><bk:aulast>Baader</bk:aulast><bk:aufirst>Franz</bk:aufirst></bk:author>
            <bk:author><bk:aulast>Horrocks</bk:aulast><bk:aufirst>Ian</bk:aufirst></bk:author>
            <bk:author><bk:aulast>Sattler</bk:aulast><bk:aufirst>Ulrike</bk:aufirst></bk:author>
          </bk:authors>
          <bk:btitle>Handbook of Knowledge Representation</bk:btitle>
          <bk:atitle>Description Logics</bk:atitle>
          <bk:place>Amsterdam</bk:place>
          <bk:pub>Elsevier</bk:pub>
          <bk:date>2008</bk:date>
          <bk:spage>135</bk:spage>
          <bk:epage>179</bk:epage>
          <bk:series>Foundations of Artificial Intelligence</bk:series>
          <bk:isbn>9780444522115</bk:isbn>
          <bk:genre>bookitem</bk:genre>
        </bk:book>
      </ctx:metadata>
    </ctx:metadata-by-val>
  </ctx:referent>
</ctx:context-object>

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