Dr Robert Sanderson wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Mike Taylor wrote:
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>>> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
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>>>> you can use it not just to say "find all record" but also "find
>>>> all records that have an author", "all records that have a title",
>>>> etc., depending on the access point it's used with.
>>>
>>> That sounds more like a special 'any value' term.
>>
>> Yes, that would have been a better name for this.
>
>
> So can't we do that already?
>
> dc.title = "*"
Or
  dc.title > "*"
or
  dc.title any "*"
or
  dc.title = ""  // empty term.

I like a special relation better, then.

/ Adam

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