On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 20:25 +0000, Mike Taylor wrote:

> > There's nothing -wrong- with creating a marc format specific context
> > set with n thousand possible indexes corresponding to field +
> > subfield, and if there is an out-of-band agreement as to marc
> > bibliographic profiles (which there obviously are) then it's quite
> > possible to use the context set in the community where the agreement
> > holds.
> 
> Precisely.

So the answer to the original question of does CQL help with searching
MARC is: Yes, but you need to think about HOW you want to search your
data. Do you want to search by syntax (marc.500a), or by semantics
(foo.noteText)?

Rob

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