RE: CCL proposal (quotes)

I just spent a week with the e-learning community.  I complained to them
that making more options did not lead to interoperability.  More options
just make more work for profiling groups.

We said it was z39.58 regular experssions, for whatever reason, and we
should make it so.  I should have withdrawn my proposal for a fix to the
question-mark-digit problem when Alan provided the clarification.  I propose
that we set aside the vote (this is a motion to reconsider based on new
information for the Roberts Rules folks) and just put in the clarifying
text.

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Denenberg [mailto:rden@loc.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:27 PM
> To: zig
> Subject: Re: CCL proposal (quotes)
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 8 May 2002 12:58:46 UTC