> a position in a resultset. The recordid should become part of the > SRU/SRW specifications as request parameter and in the SRU/SRW response. A) What if the record doesn't have a unique persistant id? B) Why not just use the existing mechanism of CQL? ...&query=identifier%="foo1" C) As record metadata, it belongs with record metadata, however we handle this. > valuable. The concept of DCX is explained below and I will submit a > proposal to the DCMI to adopt this concept. I would like to propose > support of DCX (rather than DC) as compulsary in SRU/SRW. > Please give me your opnion on this. My opinion hasn't changed from the other times you brought it up ;) OTOH, if the DCMI approve it, then we should make it possible to support. Changing the requirement to support DCX over DC is a little too far though, as it could require a LOT of work on the client side to handle sensibly. DC as mandatory is there to enable a minimum standard, not necessarily one that can be used for all purposes. Rob -- ,'/:. Rob Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 ,'---/::::::::::. Twin Cathedrals: telnet: liverpool.o-r-g.org 7777 ____/:::::::::::::. WWW: http://liverpool.o-r-g.org:8000/ I L L U M I N A T I