(What does this have to do with String packing Explain?)

> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:18:15 -0400
> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>       http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/SOAR?operation=scan&scanClause=dc.title%20any%20fish&version=1.1&maximumTerms=0
>       [...]
>       java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid positiveInteger:  0
>
> Any suggestions on how I should handle this?  We've got no
> diagnostics for this kind of thing because we expected that the WSDL
> would keep it from happening.

We need an EINVAL diagnostic.  Given SRW's big song-and-dance about
being transport independent, we surely can't depend on one particular
transport to protect us from error conditions that can arise under
another.

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