> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:59:18 -0400
> From: Ray Denenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > In Z39.50 we can do this really nice combining of multiple
> > resultsets with Sort.  As resultsetId parameter is a single
> > string, I take it that we're just ignoring this in SRW?
>
> You can combine sets by ORing them in the query and then sort.

Aha!  So we _are_ keeping the ability to refer to a previous result
set (or more than one) in a new search.

So you can do the search "result-set foo" with a new sort-spec.

My question: how is that different from submitting a request with that
sort-spec, with no search-specification, and with "foo" specified as
the previous result set?  Surely they are are equivalent?

In which case we should junk the latter: there should be one and only
one way to say each thing.  N'est-ce pas?

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