<displayTerm> as a subelement of <term> in Scan responses

["LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>]

There’s an overlong debate going on in the search-ws-comment mail list (search-ws-comment@lists.oasis-open.org) about including a displayTerm as a subelement of <term> in a facet response.  The feelings against including displayTerm are so strong as to suggest that it should be deprecated in Scan.

 

I’ve been the one arguing for the inclusion of displayTerm for consistency with Scan, but I don’t use it myself in any of my implementations.  So, my question for you all is: do any of you actually use the displayTerm in your responses?  If not, I’ll happily drop my arguments.  If so, can you provide a good use case?

 

Thanks!

 

Ralph