I would recommend that you send this query to the OpenURL listserv [log in to unmask] at one point there was something at caltech that did this; i'm not sure if it made it to final >Hi-- > >Is there any existing code that can validate the descriptive metadata of >an OpenURL ContextObject? > >For example, >http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal >states thats "auinit1" can have zero or one value and it must be the >first author's first initial. Is there something into which I can input >an OpenURL to see whether indeed the auinit1 param value is only one >character (either A-Z or a-z) and has no more than one occurrence... >plus all the other constraints for the other parameters in the Matrix on >http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal >? > > > --SET -- Eric Hellman, Director OCLC Openly Informatics Division [log in to unmask] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 http://openly.oclc.org/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything