Andy Powell writes > I'm not really sure... but my feeling is that 'simple DC' means simple > literal string values and *nothing* else. I share that view. If you want to have simple DC as a basic interoperabilty format, you need to restrict it to the very basics. Otherwise, anybody is going to stuff in whatever structured construct they want as values of , and you end up with no interoperability. > I think we now have a good understanding of qualified DC in terms of > element refinement and encoding schemes. By "we" you probably mean the geeks on this list. It is not sure that this understanding goes much beyond it. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:[log in to unmask] http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel