[OAI-implementers] name value pair question

[Joe Futrelle]

Which U of Illinois toolkit are you using?

On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Rob Tice wrote:

> Thanks for the helpful responses and clarification.
>
> I just wanted to check a last point. We are using the university of  
> Illinois
> java OAI toolkit. To anyone else using this toolkit, is this known  
> issue?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scholte, J.C.M. [mailto:J.C.M.Scholte at uva.nl]
> Sent: 08 December 2005 15:04
> To: Simeon Warner; Rob Tice
> Cc: oai-implementers at openarchives.org
> Subject: RE: [OAI-implementers] name value pair question
>
>
>
> that must be 'until' of course in the url's mentioned ;-)
>
>
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org
> [mailto:oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org]Namens Simeon Warner
> Verzonden: donderdag 8 december 2005 15:37
> Aan: Rob Tice
> CC: oai-implementers at openarchives.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [OAI-implementers] name value pair question
>
>
>
>
> I think parameters without a value should be omitted, hence naming  
> them
> "optional arguments". This is certainly the rule followed in the  
> examples
> in the specification
> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ 
> openarchivesprotocol.htm#ProtocolMessage
> s
>
> "from=" would likely be interpreted as a from date that is a null  
> string
> and thus give a badArgument error, e.g:
> http://eprints.rclis.org/perl/oai2? 
> verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&fr
> om=&to=2005-10-18
> http://arxiv.org/oai2? 
> verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=&to=2005-1
> 0-18
> http://dspace.mit.edu/oai/request? 
> verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&fro
> m=&to=2005-10-18
> http://libeprints.open.ac.uk/perl/oai2? 
> verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_d
> c&from=&to=2005-10-18
>
> Cheers,
> Simeon
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Rob Tice wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have just subscribed to the list as I was hoping to seek the  
>> opinion of
>> the implementation community on an interoperability issue we are  
>> currently
>> having.
>>
>> We are experiencing some problems based around how we submit name  
>> value
>> pairs in a query and the specification of a name without a value.
>>
>> Take the following query
>>
>> ?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=&to=18-10-2005
>>
>> We are taking the view that this is a valid query i.e. the  
>> specification
> of
>> &from= with no value is syntactically correct.
>>
>> Are we correct in this assumption?
>>
>> Apologies if this is a trivial question.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Rob Tice
>>
>>
>>
>>
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