What is XML Tagged Data?
XML (Extensible Markup Language) prescribes a standard format for embedding descriptive information and forces each element to fit into a logical, predictable structure. NLM’s required format requires the various pieces of information, such as author, title of article, and date of publication to be enclosed in certain defined tags or delimiters. A description of our required XML format as well as other important information for publishers may be found on NLM’s Web site at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helppubmed.chapter.publisherhelp. Citations and abstracts submitted electronically in our required XML format are available to the public via PubMed® almost immediately after its receipt and the records then quickly move into the indexing stream. Thus, the public has access to this information more rapidly than records which are created by scanning and optical character recognition (OCR). Publishers may also enable direct links from PubMed citations to the full-text of jou
