Dear Saa¹ha,
Thanks so much for the suggestion! The MODS EC has approved this change,
and you'll see it in MODS 3.5, which we hope to have out for testing soon.
Best,
Jenn Riley
Chair, MODS/MADS Editorial Committee
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On 3/3/12 2:19 AM, "Saa¹ha Metsärantala" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>MODS 3.4 XML Schema available at
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods.xsd defines
>
>xs:simpleType name="languageAuthorityAttributeDefinition"
>
>as an
>
>xs:restriction base="xs:string"
>
>containing (among others)
>
>xs:enumeration value="rfc4646"
>
>But RFC-4646 is now obsoleted and replaced by
>
>http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5646.xml
>
>which takes into account RFC-5645 containing some important improvements.
>Therefore, I would suggest to slightly modify
>
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods.xsd
>
>to support RFC-5646, which could be achieved with the additon of
>
>xs:enumeration value="rfc5646"
>
>in the definition of
>
>xs:simpleType name="languageAuthorityAttributeDefinition"
>
>Regards!
>
>Saa¹ha,
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