Karen wrote :
>5) The "text" data element (it might need another name) is a way to
carry
>to unparsed statement from the original metadata record when a
>transformation is done from a citation format to MODS. It may be useful
for
>display even if it is successfully parsed into detailed elements, and
it
>may carry data that doesn't get into the subdocument data elements
(such as
>the date in the middle example).
Why the date element couldn't be also parsed ?
Yves
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