On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:57 PM, Andrew E Switala wrote:
> ... another advantage of elements vs. element+attribute is enforcement
> of
> valid content.
[...snip...]
> Similarly there could be, e.g. marcRelatorCode and marcRelatorText
> along with roleTerm authority="...", marcGenre along with genre
> authority="...", and so forth.
You mean data-typing? I don't think the benefits of data-typing
outweigh the inflexibility introduced by hard-coding such marc-specific
stuff in MODS.
Bruce
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