Z39.50 Clarifications

August 2000
Procedures Concerning Clarifications

Clarifications Pending Approval

The following Clarifications are Approved:
  1. Present request out-of-range
  2. Explain element maxTerms
  3. Partial Search Results
  4. SUTRS and InternationalString
  5. Syntax of bibliographic part of OPAC record
  6. Explain parameter namedResultSets
  7. Explain parameter maxResultSets
  8. Item Order Customer Reference and PO Number
  9. Local Control Number and Document Id
  10. OtherInfo Categories
  11. Update Extended Service Questions
  12. Usage of Z39.50 Metadata Elements
  13. Scan 'Occurrences'
  14. Piggy-back Search/present Support
  15. Preferred Message Size
  16. Scan: values of Position-in-response
  17. Close Status
  18. Multiple ranges
  19. TargetInfo key in Explain
  20. Grouping bib-1 Attributes
  21. Retrieving Compound Elements
  22. DateAdded Attribute in exp-1
  23. Explain Database Term List
  24. Packaging Elements in GRS
  25. Item Order Encoding of ILL APDU
  26. Another Piggyback Question
  27. Search Response Present Status
  28. Result Set Semantics
  29. Segmentation Sequence
  30. Terminating an Operation in Progress
  31. Protocol Error in Version 2
  32. Segmentation and Version 3
  33. HTML without GRS
  34. AdditionalRanges on PresentRequest
  35. Database Names in Present Response
  36. tagOccurrence: 1-based or 0-based?
  37. Zero Results
  38. Case Sensitivity of Result Set and Database Names
  39. Extended Result Set Model
  40. Is Extended Services Database Mandatory?
  41. GeneralString vs VisibleString in GRS
  42. String Attribute Value
  43. tagType and tagSet OID Relationship
  44. GRS-1 Metadata elements
  45. Case-sensitivity of Element-Set Names
  46. CorrelationInfo (Update Extended Service)
  47. Reference Id
  48. Multiple Sort Keys
  49. numberOfRecordsReturned
  50. Search Statuses, Non-surrogate Diagnostics, and Result Set
  51. Bib-1 diagnostics 32 and 33, and Partial Results
  52. TagSet M or G Element for url-style Document Identifier
  53. Scan: Omitted Attribute Set Id
  54. Keyword Searching of Bibliographic Systems
  55. Ascending and Descending by "frequency" in Sort
  56. Single-PDU, Multi-database Searching -- Status
  57. Character Set Negotiation -- Implementation Level and Collections
  58. Multi-word Term with Structure 'word'
  59. Server Selected Record Syntax
  60. Attribute Set in Scan Response
  61. Bib-1 Use Attribute "Any" Across Operands
  62. Negative Result Count in Search Response
  63. No Presentation Context
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