RE: [search-ws-comment] DisplayTerm RE: Proposal to remove facet range feature from SRU 2.0

Thinking more about DisplayTerm.. and the question: Do we need 

it?
 

 

I'd like to up the stakes was Edo suggested. What's an example or a 

good 
 business case where one needs in the light of "anything goes" a 

DisplayTerm?
 

 

From the current draft on 

Scan:
 

 

<displayTerm>
 

 

"A string to display to the end user in place of the term itself. For 

example 
 this might add back in diacritics or capitalization which do not appear in 

the
 

index. 

"
 

 

Is this really a good reason to have 

one?
 

 

Is the point of Scan to provide terms as they are stored in the index or is 

it 
 not the function of scan to provide terms that one can search 

for?
 

 

If one can't search using diacritics or capitalization but is clever enough 

to 
 be able to deliver in <displayTerm>..</displayTerm> the diacritics 

and 
 capitalization then one should also be clever enough to search for 

diacritics 
 and capitalization in indexes where terms are not stored using diacritics 

or 
 capitalization. We should, I think, never confuse the terms in scan with 

a 
 dump of the index. Its a search and not a debug 

service.
 

 

The only case I can think of is when they look identical but 

aren't.
 

 

Do we really want a 

difference?
 

 

Übertritt as a display 

 

uebertritt as the 

term
 

 

Übertritt as a 

display
 

Übertritt as a 

term
 

 

e.g. Two displayed Übertritt for two different "spellings" in an index 

with 
 quite different results? How does the user tell the 

difference?
 

 

 

FYI: In this case.. Ue and Ü should be different since while in German Ü 

and 
 Ue are generally inter-changeable (following an accepted convention 

for writing words with umlauts without their umlauts) in other languages they 

are 
 not.The transformation Ü->Ue is not 

reversible (not even in "German" texts).
 

 

 

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