Subtitle

since I will set up a script for creating the import file I will use the format which will fit my needs best.
But my current preference is bibtex.

I have seen this approach in some endnote blog. But if there is a chance to separate these entries from each other I would like to do so.

That is exactly what I am interested in!
But my (actual) knowledge is, that the sequence
title --> secondary_title --> tertiary_title
is the way bottom up. That means it follows the sequence (e.g.)
book-title --> series-title --> whatever-on-top

Isn't subtitle in the hierarchy below title, that means
subtitle --> title --> secondary-title --> tertiary_title

Regards

I'm really confused about that fact that there is no field for a subtitle.
OK, let's not complain about that. But the problem still remains that e.g. for
article: title --> book: secondary_title --> series: tertiary_title
there is no room left for subtitle.

So, this means I have to follow the common way to append the subtitle to the title field (separated by a colon).
This doesn't make me happy!

Regards

Yes, It's surprising that most formats don't support subtitles.
And there is also the question whether the might be a subtitle for each stage, that means
* a subtitle for a chapter heading
* a subtitle for the book
* a subtitle for the series
I really don't know.

May be the answer is that a bibliography entry is always refering to the leaf of the tree, e.g the chapter.
And all the other nodes on the path (book, volume, series ...) are not on focus.

Regards

P.S.
The new development based on CCK is for D7 ?

And meanwhile I followed your advice and used ALTERNATE_TITLE for the subtitle.
Everythings worked fine. The only remark I have to append is that the imported XML file did not contain the REFERENCE_TYPE markups (my fault). And as a result all imported records were corrupted (see appended images).

Ron, thank you very much for your help!

Yes, I solved my small "REFERENCE_TYPE" problem.

It's out of topic, but may I ask an additional question?
Now, when the new records are imported I like to set up a view to show them in a list.
Therefor I exported the existing biblioview and added a filtering rule like

  $view->filter = array (
    array (
      'tablename' => 'biblio',
      'field' => 'biblio_secondary_title',
      'operator' => '=',
      'options' => '',
      'value' => 'the journal name',
    ),
  );

but when trying to import the filter (new name etc.) I always get an error message

	Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in drupal/includes/form.inc on line 950.

It seems that it is not possible to use table biblio / field 'biblio_secondary_title'. When changing these to "node" and "title" the view is created. What the hell is going wrong?

Regards
Reiner