On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:07:02 -0400, "Andrew E Switala" <[log in to unmask]> said: > And of course, now that we have a spiffy new authority file format, we > can give the correct abbreviated form explicitly inside a <ref > variantType="abbreviation">. Yes, but it means some redundant coding because the abbreviation only happens at the level of the name; not the namePart. Bruce