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Anyone who uses <marcGenre> or <isbn> as opposed to their untyped
counterparts is voluntarily requesting strict type checking.  S/he
*wants* to be inflexible.  It was just a brainstorm following Karen's
idea for multiple title elements.  What would be perfect would be to
have authority/type attributes that actually meant something to a schema
processor.  Or something similar.

>>> [log in to unmask] 2004-01-22 14:45:39 >>>
On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:57 PM, Andrew E Switala wrote:

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