- From: Ray denenberg <raydenenberg@starpower.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 07:43:43 -0400
- To: "Henrik Dahl" <hdahl@inet.uni2.dk>
- Cc: <www-zig@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Dahl" <hdahl@inet.uni2.dk> > Can't somebody shed some light on this: Hi Henrik, sorry, I started to answer this yesterday and got distracted. > I've got a question regarding SearchRequest.databaseNames versus > NamePlusRecord.name. Let's assume that SearchRequest.databaseNames contains > two entries "A" and "B". Is it a requirement that NamePlusRecord.name is > either "A" or "B" or may NamePlusRecord.name contain a value for > DatabaseName not included in SearchRequest.databaseNames, e.g. "C"? Assuming the search contains only operands of the form "attributeList+Term" and none of the form ResultSetId or Restriction (see 3.7) then the result set resulting from the search should contain records from A and B only. But there isn't any explicit rule that the server can't supply a database name other than A and B. The server might, for example, have an alias for "A", say "AA"; or it might supply the name of a database that is a subset or superset of A or B. So the strict answer is that you can't really draw any conclusive rule. see also the clarification: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/clarify/dbnames.html --Ray
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