> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:36:17 -0500
> From: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Before eSpec, the Z39.50 record syntax parameter served both as (1)
> the abstract view of the record for purpose of selecting elements,
> and (2) the desired transfer sytax. Until we started talking about
> selecting elements (beyond using simple element set names) nobody
> thought about the difference. Discussion of element selection made
> us realize that there's a difference, and we introduced the Z39.50
> "schema" parameter (via compSpec) to distinguish the two.
>
> I don't want us to do similar, elaborate modelling as we did in
> Z39.50. But the fact is that we are, implicitly, modeling element
> selection.
Appendix RET lives! It lives!! Aiiiieee!
:-)
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