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The content of this site consists of primary texts in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon and English, and secondary texts in English.
The content is in various presentation formats:
XML, XHTML, DjVu, and PDF. Many of the texts are in XML which was preferred over XHTML because it was designed as an open standard to describe a syntax that can be used to define elements specific to a document unlike XHTML which has fixed tag sets. It is platform independent, free from licensing restrictions, well supported and can describe the content for a particular audience or group.
 We also use DjVu files which are considerably smaller than equivalent images files, such as TIFF, PDF and JPG. DjVu uses complex text/image and compression algorithms, which allow the faithful representation of the compressed images and the editing of the text extracted from the images.
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