> My pass1 mode is going to create an exact copy of the source 
> bibliographic collection, with the only difference being that 
> the year 
> strings get the proper suffix appended.

That's probably the cleanest way of doing it. Another approach would be for
phase 1 to create a small document that contains only the additional
information needed, and for phase 2 to merge this with the original data;
but I'd avoid that unless the sizes are mega-big.


Michael Kay