>Maybe I'm missing something, but if we capture each subelement in
>it's own property, there'd be no need to parse a long string with
>ISBD punctuation.You'd know exactly what was in each, even if you
>didn't have a display system.

If it is in Chinese characters,  I don't know where the place ends and
the publisher begins, nor where the title proper ends and subtitle
begins.  I only got up the 300 characters and gave up.


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