Larry,

If you are looking for examples: we use sortKeys=<tag path>,[a|d] like
for example "sortKeys=title,d,author,a".
As it is not yet specified for 1.1 (or is it by the examples?) I would
like to suggest  a change the syntax for SRU so that different sort
strings are in a single URL parameter separated by ";" like for
example:
sortKeys=dc.title,a;dc.creator,d,0,h,mods
It is only a minor thing but just easier to read, type and parse
without counting comma's and without keeping the order of url
parameters.

Theo


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Janifer,
Always looking for SRU examples, I added your two sortKey requests to

http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/srutest.html

Let me know if they need to be changed (following this discussion).
Larry

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Janifer Gatenby wrote:

> The following two URLs show sort working but the sequence of the
"sort comma
> delimited elements" is different from the document that I found and
gave in
> the previous message.  This leads me to believe that there was a
later
> version 1.0 document.  I would naturally prefer the sequence that we
have
> implemented which is below but don't mind too much:
>
> tag path, schema, case, missing value, direction
>
>
> http://greta.pica.nl:1080/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve
>
<http://greta.pica.nl:1080/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=d

>
c.title%20exact%20html&recordSchema=dc&sortKeys=RLV,pica,1&maximumRecords=10
> &recordPacking=xml>
>
&version=1.1&query=dc.title%20exact%20html&recordSchema=dc&sortKeys=RLV,pica
> ,1&maximumRecords=10&recordPacking=xml
>
> http://greta.pica.nl:1080/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve
>
<http://greta.pica.nl:1080/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=d

>
c.title%20exact%20html&recordSchema=dc&sortKeys=YOP,pica,1&maximumRecords=10
> &recordPacking=xml>
>
&version=1.1&query=dc.title%20exact%20html&recordSchema=dc&sortKeys=YOP,pica
> ,1&maximumRecords=10&recordPacking=xml
>
>
> Janifer
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