Foster wrote: > we should allow people to use name of the language > instead of code in MODS, because we will have collection that > is generated from people not in library science background, > and the name of the language is much more understandable by > regular users who without access to the standards. I agree with this. Also, would not the language in which the language name is written have to be specified as an attribute? E.g., my supplied real-language MODS data for the language "anglais" is French-language data, as opposed to "English" which is English-language data. Thus, will we also need <lang=fre> or <lang=eng> (or the equivalent 2-character code) as an attribute of this element? (Apologies: I'm not adept enough in XML to give you the statements the way they really should look.) Din. Donna Dinberg Systems Librarian/Analyst Government Online Task Force National Library of Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4 Voice: 613-995-9227 E-mail: [log in to unmask]