There is no reason to arbitrarily restrict the sizes of bibliographic fields.
Furthermore, the term "character" is difficult: are Unicode characters meant, or database "characters" which often relate to bytes
The ST_String255 datatype should be removed, and replaced with XSD:String
All places which use ST_String255 should instead have an informative note: "For interoperability, use of strings greater than 255 Unicode characters in length is deprecated." (or 255/3 = 84 characters if the constraint is bytes and we need to cope with Chinese/Japanese/Korean UTF-8)
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment AU-0019 (Modified: 2008-01-04) Agreed; the ST_String255 simple type will be renamed to ST_String, and the following changes will be made: Part 4, §7.6, page 5,191, lines 27 7.6.3.2 ST_String 255 (String Value) This simple type specifies that its contents will contain a string. The contents of this string are interpreted in the context of the parent XML element. This simple type’s contents are a restriction of the XML Schema string datatype. String whose maximum length is 255 characters. This simple type’s contents are a restriction of the XML Schema string datatype. This simple type also specifies the following restrictions: This simple type’s contents have a minimum length of 0 characters. This simple type’s contents have a maximum length of 255 characters. In addition to this change, all elements that currently reference this simple type will be updated as follows: The possible values for this element are defined by the ST_String 255 simple type (§7.6.3.2). This change applies to the following elements in Part 4: AbbreviatedCaseNumber (§7.6.2.1); AlbumTitle (§7.6.2.2); BookTitle (§7.6.2.7); Broadcaster (§7.6.2.8); BroadcastTitle (§7.6.2.9); CaseNumber (§7.6.2.10); ChapterNumber (§7.6.2.11); City (§7.6.2.12); Comments (§7.6.2.13); ConferenceName (§7.6.2.17); Corporate (§7.6.2.18); CountryRegion (§7.6.2.20); Court (§7.6.2.21); Day (§7.6.2.22); DayAccessed (§7.6.2.23); Department (§7.6.2.24); Distributor (§7.6.2.26); Edition (§7.6.2.27); First (§7.6.2.29); Guid (§7.6.2.30); Institution (§7.6.2.31); InternetSiteTitle (§7.6.2.32); Issue (§7.6.2.36); JournalName (§7.6.2.37); Last (§7.6.2.38); LCID (§7.6.2.39); Medium (§7.6.2.40); Middle (§7.6.2.41); Month (§7.6.2.42); MonthAccessed (§7.6.2.43); NumberVolumes (§7.6.2.45); Pages (§7.6.2.46); PatentNumber (§7.6.2.47); PeriodicalTitle (§7.6.2.49); ProductionCompany (§7.6.2.52); PublicationTitle (§7.6.2.53); Publisher (§7.6.2.54); RecordingNumber (§7.6.2.55); RefOrder (§7.6.2.56); Reporter (§7.6.2.57); ShortTitle (§7.6.2.58); Sources@SelectedStyle (§7.6.2.60); Sources@StyleName (§7.6.2.60); Sources@URI (§7.6.2.60); ST_SourceType (§7.6.3.1); StandardNumber (§7.6.2.62); StateProvince (§7.6.2.63); Station (§7.6.2.64); Tag (§7.6.2.65); Theater (§7.6.2.66); ThesisType (§7.6.2.67); Title (§7.6.2.68); Type (§7.6.2.70); URL (§7.6.2.71); Version (§7.6.2.72); Volume (§7.6.2.73); Year (§7.6.2.75); YearAccessed (§7.6.2.76)
