- From: Sebastian Hammer <quinn@indexdata.dk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:14:56 +0100
- To: ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au (Alan Kent), www-zig@w3.org
At 10:42 24-11-00 +1100, Alan Kent wrote: >But I struggle to make arguments I feel are convincing even to myself. >I think numeric USE attributes are so deep seated that its not even >worth thinking about changing it unless Z39.50V4 came along with a >radical revamp of the protocol. So I probably should not have sent >this email! :-) Beg to differ. V3 allows string-form attribute values, and with the attribute set architecture we can have (string) attribute values that are directly tied to the retrieval schema. As I recall, you can even give hierarchical attributes. For XML-oriented databases the implications should be obvious. No need to wait for V4. Mind you, to promote interoperabilty across domains, I still think there's a lot to be said for good old attribute sets with retrieval-independent access points. --Sebastian -- Sebastian Hammer <quinn@indexdata.dk> Index Data ApS Ph.: +45 3341 0100 <http://www.indexdata.dk> Fax: +45 3341 0101
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