> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:05:49 +0000
> From: Rob Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
> 
>>> 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)?

Agreed.

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