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Mike Taylor wrote: > Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress writes: > > > ... with the exception of this brain-damage: "It was the > > > consensus of the meeting that there should be a parameter (in SRU > > > version 2.0) to specify the requested response schema: SRU, RSS, > > > ATOM, ext." How about response schema XML. Or GRS-1? HTTP can return octet streams just fine. It will be fun for client developers for sure:-) / Adam > > > > > > But luckily for everyone who agreed with this idea at the meeting, I > > > am too tired to fight it. > > > > As this is an issue that need not be resoved any time soon (it > > would be considered within the OASIS work, for SRU 2.0) nobody is > > suggesting that you not advocate your position, but we (the meeting > > participants) feel that you haven't articulated any argument - "a > > tool should do one thing and do it well" (or however you put it) > > seems at best a non sequitur. We're hoping you will join the TC and > > that you'll be willing to share your insight on this when it comes > > up. > > Well, as I said, I am too weary to fight this. To me, making the > change is like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa: self evidently > The Wrong Thing. But if you are more of a Laughing Cavalier kind of > guy prefer your paintings to have moustaches, then that is ultimately > a matter of taste, and nothing I say will persuade you. So let's save > ourselves the bother by my not trying. > > > >> Pairing a modifier from one set with a value from another is not > > >> a good practice. > > > > > > It's not just "not good practice", it's impossible. > > > > It's not impossible unless the spec says it's impossible. I'd be > > happy to add explicit prose to this effect but right now the spec > > does not preclude this behavior. > > http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/cql/index.html#context > > Context sets permit CQL users to create their own > indexes, relations, relation modifiers and boolean > modiers without fear of chosing the same name as > someone else and thereby having an ambiguous > query. All of these four aspects of CQL must come > from a context set, however there are rules for > determining the prevailing default if one is not > supplied. > > Nothing there about relation-modifier values. > > _/|_ ___________________________________________________________________ > /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk > )_v__/\ Growing up is the inevitable process of becoming firstly the > people our parents warned us about, and then the people that > the people our parents warned us about, warned us about. > >