On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Mike Taylor wrote:
>> From: Hedzer Westra <[log in to unmask]>

>> [Rob]
>>> I believe so. exact is treated as anchored at both ends, and may not
>>>  have any masking characters.
>> [Mike]
>>> No, a masked string is just fine. (Why would we prohibit such a
>>> useful thing?)

> Note that Rob's interpretation and mine are identical _except_ that
> Rob believes there is an arbitrary prohibition on the use of
> wildcarding when the relation is "exact".

I have since come around from this delusion. Mike's answer is correct :)


>> Too bad there isn't a separate spec for sorting on context set
>> indexes.
> That way, Z39.50 lies :-)

To expand upon Mike's typical one-liner, the problem is that then you have
to include the entire search clause (or attribute combination for Z) and
the only thing that you can search by are indexes, rather than relatively
arbitrary data.

I'm not (personally) averse to reworking the sort definition for 1.2, so
if you have any concrete ideas, put them forwards :)

Rob


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