XML DTD

Latest version of the BioMed Central article DTD and W3C Schema:

• Article DTD
• W3C Schema

This XML format is used for all articles published by BioMed Central. It is based on the Keton SGML DTD, simplified and made XML compliant.

Tag by tag description of how to use this the BioMed Central article XML format:

• Tagging guidelines
  

Sample data:

• Generic sample
  This is a sample paper designed to show usage of all tags from of the latest DTD
• Genome Biology
  Are plant formins integral membrane proteins?
• Breast Cancer Research 1
  Smoking and high-risk.
• Breast Cancer Research 2
  Altered expression of estrogen.

Preview stylesheet

A generic, freely reusable XSLT preview stylesheet is available, which will render the standard BioMed Central XML format into HTML format for display purposes:

preview.xsl (37K)

Sample code for using the stylesheet is also available:

• ASP sample code
• JSP sample code

Open access research article corpus available for free download

For details of how to download BioMed Central's entire corpus of several thousand full text research articles, in XML form, please see our datamining research page.