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On 11-Apr-07 at 16:35 -0700 Karen Coyle wrote: > Matthias Steffens wrote: > > > >Bibutils and refbase currently use for single-page items (such as > >journal articles or book chapters, under 'relatedItem > >type="host"'): > > > > <part> > > ... > > <detail type="page"> > > <number>37</number> > > </detail> > > </part> > > > Unfortunately, this wouldn't distinguish between page 37 and 37 > pages (total). The latter is used in some A&I databases, sometimes > with another data element for the page numbers, but sometimes > alone when the item is unnumbered. That would argue for the > start/end convention for any encoding of page numeration, with > "number" meaning number of pages, not page numbers. If that's at > all clear. I see your point. However, I thought that the recommended way of encoding total number of pages in MODS was: <extent unit="pages"> <total>402</total> </extent> Please correct me if this is wrong. Thanks again, Matthias __________________________________________ Matthias Steffens ---- www.refbase.net