>Maybe I'm missing something, but if we capture each subelement in >it's own property, there'd be no need to parse a long string with >ISBD punctuation.You'd know exactly what was in each, even if you >didn't have a display system. If it is in Chinese characters, I don't know where the place ends and the publisher begins, nor where the title proper ends and subtitle begins. I only got up the 300 characters and gave up. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([log in to unmask]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________