Re: Terms and display terms in scan

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:57:08 +1100
> From: Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>
> 
> What I think is that the 'term' returned for a scan should be the
> term that can be queried on. How a system internally implements
> something is not relevant. So above, an internal data structure
> might use "S123", but the 'term' returned in the scan list should be
> something that can be searched on.

That is also my understanding.

> But I am less clear whether the display term is meant to also be
> searchable, or whether it is more like a human friendly view, never
> to be used for any purpose other than showing to a human. Ie: don't
> use it for queries.

I think the latter.

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