Xref: utzoo comp.text:7811 comp.databases:8278 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!diku!elgaard From: elgaard@diku.dk (Niels Elgaard Larsen) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.databases Subject: Re: ISBN numbers Message-ID: <1990Dec29.171509.10739@odin.diku.dk> Date: 29 Dec 90 17:15:09 GMT References: <1990Dec17.205911.15073@mtxinu.COM> <1990Dec19.030040.27240@cbnewsl.att.com> Sender: news@odin.diku.dk (Netnews System) Organization: Institute of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 18 psrc@cbnewsl.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes: >The NIH class library book (published in the U.K.) didn't have a hyphen >between the publisher and book number, much to my surprise. The hyphens isn't significant. The system is designed so the interpretation is unique. This means that you always know what parts of the ISBN is the language number and the publishers number. Ie. since Denmark has the number 87, there can be no language number 8 or with the prefix 87. -- Niels Elgaard Larsen | Institute of Datalogy, | Long before Europe University of Copenhagen | became the focus of world attension, E-mail: elgaard@freja.diku.dk | it was a focus for The Economist