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   * **Interface Customization**  Greenstone3 replaces macros with XML and XSLT for customising the visual appearance of your collections. This affords users more power over the look-and-feel of collections. The library program generates page data in XML, which is converted to HTML using XSLT. All formatting is done using XSLT, so it makes it easier to customize than Greenstone2 in which some of the HTML is output by the library, and some by the macro files. It is very easy to get back the data in XML, if you want to use it for other purposes.
   * **Development **  Greenstone3 is being actively developed, with new features being added and stability increasing all the time.
-  * **Berry Baskets**  Berry Baskets offer a way to gather documents of interest while browsing Greenstone collections. When you turn the facility on from the Preferences page, a basket appears in your browser window. Now, whenever you see a document that interests you, you can drag-and-drop it into the basket. Later, you can review the basket's contents, and cut-and-paste them into an email. (Note, the "Send email to a friend" button does not work yet. Also, it works best under Firefox, rather than Internet Explorer.)
+  * **Berry Baskets**  Berry Baskets offer a way to gather documents of interest while browsing Greenstone collections. When you turn the facility on from the Preferences page, a basket appears in your browser window. Now, whenever you see a document that interests you, you can drag-and-drop it into the basket. Later, you can review the basket's contents, and email them to yourself. (Note, it works best under Firefox, rather than Internet Explorer.)
   * **Cross-Collection Search**  Cross-collection searching in Greenstone3 is provided across all collections by default. Collections are no longer required to have the same indexes, as the default index is used for each one. However, this means that you can't select which indexes to search, and search result ranking may not be valid as different indexers rank results differently.
   * **Multiple sets of collections and multiple interfaces**  A single Greenstone3 installation can have multiple sets of collections and multiple interface definitions. Greenstone2, on the other hand, has a single collect directory, and a single set of macros. Greenstone3 has multiple "sites" each of which has its own collect directory, and multiple "interfaces" each of which has its own set of XSLT files. Any site can be served using any interface.