Today, most text-based documents, including most word processing files, can hold field information, such as title, author, etc. The focus of this paper is on Web-based formats that support meta data. HTML, PDF and XML all provide convenient documents up database support, and all have their advantages. For a text-only database, XML supplies maximum flexibility. HTML provides for combined text, fielded data and images in a browser-universal format. PDF provides for maximum control over text in relation to images.
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