>But this restriction type would get awfully long - it not just Chinese that >gets transliterated. How about Cyrillic, Tamil, Innu, etc.? Of course there is a lot of transliterations (there more than 6000 languages, how transliterations ?). Technically the value of the attribute could be just a "link" to a reference list, not a real restriction ? >The authority attribute could be pressed into use for this as well. Is there currently some authorities for the transliterations ? For the point of view of the programmer, MODS should avoid ambiguity and implicit meaning. Yves Pratter