Absolutely no examples as to why binary data could be needed... but... you never know what some gen y kid might come up with ;-) Doug PS: And to think, we genxers and boomers can already be there ready with the cataloguing structures for the ohhhh soooo original punk <grin> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:34:48 -0800 "Bruce D'Arcus" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:33:51 -0500, "Doug" <[log in to unmask]> said: > > Binary information could be directly encoded with an > > encoding attribute specifying the encoding used (makes for an ugly > > title!!!!) or a link attribute could be used to link to a digital form of > > the binary information. > > I'm unclear why binary data could possibly be needed for titles Doug. > MODS already seems to make pretty extensive use of xlink on different > elements, but I just can't see the need to do this within an element. > > Care to illuminate? > > Bruce > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own >