> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:49:52 -0400
> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Well, the model is that the records aren't in any particular schema
> and they get put into the requested schema on the fly.  So, when you
> ask for them to be sorted, you ask that first the records be
> transformed to a particular schema and then you sort them on a field
> (or fields) from that schema.  Doing this, there is no mixture of
> MODS and DC records.  There are only records in the requested
> schema.

Huh.  This is new to me.  Matthew, is that what you'd understood too?
Your example of surrogate diagnostics seems to imply not.

(To be clear, I'm not adopting any position on this.  I'm just trying
to understand what the consensus is, and find out whether everyone who
cares agrees on it.)

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