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+{
+	"translatorID":"b56d756e-814e-4b46-bc58-d61dccc9f32f",
+	"translatorType":4,
+	"label":"Nagoya University OPAC",
+	"creator":"Frank Bennett",
+	"target":"^http://opac.nul.nagoya-u.ac.jp/",
+	"minVersion":"1.0.0b4.r1",
+	"maxVersion":"",
+	"priority":100,
+	"inRepository":true,
+	"lastUpdated":"2008-07-10 06:15:00"
+}
+
+function detectWeb(doc, url) {
+	if (url.match(/.*[^A-Za-z0-9]ID=[A-Z0-9].*$/)) {
+		var journal_test = doc.evaluate( '//td[contains(text(),"frequency of publication") or contains(text(),"巻次・年月次")]',  doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
+		if (!journal_test) {
+			return "book";
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// initially posted to zotero-dev as an attachment -- sorry for the extra list traffic that caused
+
+parseRomanAuthors = function (item,data) {
+	var result = false;
+	var datastring = data['title'][0].replace(/.*\//, "")
+	if ( datastring.match(/.*[^- 0-9()\[\];:.a-zA-Z].*/) ) {
+		return result;
+	}
+	var authors = datastring.split(";");
+	for (i in authors) {
+		authortype = authors[i].replace(/^([ a-z]*).*/, "$1");
+		if ( authortype.match(/.*edit.*/) ) {
+			authortype = "editor";
+		} else if ( authortype.match(/.*trans.*/) ) {
+			authortype = "translator";
+		} else {
+			authortype = "author";
+		}
+		author = authors[i].replace(/^[ a-z]*/, "").replace( /\.\.\..*/, "" );
+		item.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(author, authortype));
+		result = true;
+	}
+	return result;
+}
+
+parseJapaneseAuthors = function ( item, data ) {
+	var authortype = author;
+	var authors = data['authors'];
+	for (i in authors ) {
+		if ( authors[i].match(/.*編.*/) ) {
+			authortype = 'editor';
+		} else if ( authors[i].match(/.*訳.*/) ) {
+			authortype = 'translator';
+		} else {
+			authortype = 'author';
+		}
+		var author = authors[i].replace(/[*]/g,"").replace(/[0-9<(|].*/, "").replace(/(.*?),(.*)/, "$2 $1");
+		item.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(author, authortype));
+	}
+}
+
+function scrape(doc,url) {
+	var item = new Zotero.Item("book");
+	var spec = new Array();
+	spec['title'] = ['題および','title and statement'];	
+	spec['year'] = ['出版・頒布','publication,distribution'];
+	spec['isbn'] = ['国際標準図書','international standard book'];
+	spec['authors'] = ['著者標目','author link'];
+	spec['series'] = ['書誌構造','parent bibliography'];
+	var data = {};
+	for (key in spec) {
+		var check = doc.evaluate("//td[contains(text(),'"+spec[key][0]+"') or contains(text(),'"+spec[key][1]+"')]/following-sibling::td", doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
+		var c = check.iterateNext();
+		if (!data[key] && c) {
+			data[key] = [];
+		}
+		while (c) {
+			data[key].push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(c.textContent));
+			c = check.iterateNext();
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (data['title']) {
+		item.title = data['title'][0].replace(/\/.*/, "");
+		// if authors are in roman letters, use them
+		has_author = parseRomanAuthors( item, data );
+		// otherwise, use author links
+		if (!has_author) {
+			parseJapaneseAuthors( item, data );
+		}
+	}
+	if (data['year']) {
+		item.date = data['year'][0].replace(/.*?([0-9][.0-9][0-9]+).*/, "$1");
+		item.place = data['year'][0].replace(/:.*/, "");
+		item.publisher = data['year'][0].replace(/.*:(.*),.*/, "$1");
+	}
+	
+	// apparently the series field does not exist in this capture type
+	//if (data['series']) {
+	//	Zotero.debug('series: '+data['series'][0]);
+	//	item.series = data['series'][0].replace(/<.*/, "");
+	//}
+	
+	item.complete();
+}
+function doWeb(doc, url) {
+	var articles = [url];
+	Zotero.Utilities.processDocuments(articles, scrape, function() {Zotero.done();});
+	Zotero.wait();
+}
+