- From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 12:27:02 -0400
- To: zig <www-zig@w3.org>
Alan Kent wrote: > To me this means the documentation for the Z39.58 regexp attribute > already in Bib-1 is incomplete - the textual description of the pattern > has ommitted the Z39.58 documented support for quotes for releasing. Yes, but that was the intent when we defined it, to specify a subset of Z39.58 which included the features that people thought they wanted, keeping in mind that there already was a regExp-1 and 2. Regexp-1 is IEEE 1003.2 (and regexp-2 is server defined regular expression). Type-104 came about because although everyone acknowledged that regexp-1 included all the functionality they wanted, people wanted a truncation type for a lightweight regular expression, rather than claiming support for IEEE 1003.2 when they really only supported a small subset. We decided to call the attribute Z39.58 and define only a subset of it. (Well, it was a long discussion, and it made sense at the time, as I recall.) I suggest that we leave 104 alone, and define a type 105, which is a compatible subset of IEEE1003.2 but doesn't reference it. It's the reference to Z39.58 that's causing the problem. Call the new one regExp-3. --Ray
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