> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:37 PM
>
> Agreed. But that opens a great big can of worms known as
> 'sort' and all
> the various options of sorting that you can ask for in Z39.50.
>
> Not that I'm against opening it, but I think that it takes us
> another step
> away from the simple lean clean and hopefully useful SRW towards the
> not-so-simple, putting on weight, slightly dirty and more likely to be
> useful SRW which others don't want to go to yet.

I don't want to go there yet.  When we do go there, I'm going to push hard
for sort being a completely separate service.  I'm very aware that the
sorting can be made much more efficient if done while creating the result
set and I'm eager for a compromise that puts it into the search.  But, we
never came up with a clean way to do that in classic z39.50 and I'm not
optomistic about it happening in SRW.  But, I'd like to defer the debate for
a while.

Ralph