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Subject: RE: [search-ws] CQL Parsing Questions

From: "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
To: "Ashley Sanders" <a.sanders@manchester.ac.uk>,"Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:41:27 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashley Sanders [mailto:a.sanders@manchester.ac.uk]
> Do people feel that cql is intended for users or machines? My feeling
> is that it should be for machine-to-machine communication and
therefore
> doesn't need any syntactic sugar.

I'm afraid it is intended for human production.  If we were only
interested in machines, we'd be using XCQL.

That doesn't mean that all the extra baloney to support minimizing
typing couldn't go away.

Ralph

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References:
- CQL Parsing Questions
  - From: "Hammond, Tony" <t.hammond@nature.com>
- Re: [search-ws] CQL Parsing Questions
  - From: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>
- Re: [search-ws] CQL Parsing Questions
  - From: Ashley Sanders <a.sanders@manchester.ac.uk>