Date:Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:36:31 -0400
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From:Ray Denenberg <[log in to unmask]>
Organization:Library Of Congress
Subject:Re: sort parameter
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Robert Sanderson wrote:
> > I thought the solution we agreed upon was that this and other features would
> > be implicit in the sort key name.
>
> Yes, but under duress :) Or more accurately, that it works if the key
> only has one thing tacked on the end, but will we end up with monsters
> like:
>
> <sortkey xsi:type="xsd:string">
> AuthorLastNameCommaFirstNameAscendingCaseSensitiveMissingValueOmit
> </sortkey>
No! "implicit" not "explicit".
We haven't really said what these keys will look like, but one possibility is that
your server would support keys:
'author1' defined as: Author: " Last name, first name" Ascending, Case Sensitive,
Missing Value Omit\
'author2': " Last name, first name" Descending.....
And that these are either well-known or discoverable via explain.
> In terms of Theo's desire for having one request to send to many servers, ...
If that's what we want, we want well-known key names.
--Ray