> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:22:59 +0000
> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Mike Taylor wrote:
> >> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >>> you can use it not just to say "find all record" but also "find
> >>> all records that have an author", "all records that have a title",
> >>> etc., depending on the access point it's used with.
> >> That sounds more like a special 'any value' term.
> > Yes, that would have been a better name for this.
>
> So can't we do that already?
>
> dc.title = "*"

Mmm, yes, sort of.  I suppose.  But it's just the kind of edge-case
that server implentors will often not implement.  I think we would be
safer in making an explicit, separate, way to ask this question.

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