Re: odd search results

[Virginia Scheschy <scheschy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This was discussed a few months ago on the list, and the problem was
corrected in a recent update (I'm afraid I can't remember which one).  An
explanation of the cause of the problem follows:

>The problem is that the standard industry browsers are interpreting the
>characters "&thorn" as the ASCII character properly represented "þ"
>(Netscape and Internet Explorer both ignore the absence of the final
>semicolon ";" character). WebOPAC contructs URLS at the bibliographic
>record level using the syntax "&[indextag][searchterm]" - which means
>that where the index tag is "t" and the search term "horn", you get
>"&thorn" and the browser is substituting the thorn character. 

Virginia

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Sue Ellen Ronk wrote:

> We have a problem with the search results for the journal Horn book when
> we do a title search.
> 
> When we search in the telnet version of the catalog, no problem.  The
> title brings it right up.
> 
> When we search in the web version of OPAC and you choose the title from
> the list (it has 4 entries--uniform, key, main entry and abbreviated key),
> you get one of two results:
> 
> "Record using ',1' is unavailable at this location."  
>   OR 
> "No matches found; nearby TITLES are [blank]."
> 
> Of the 4 title entries, 2 give the first error message, and 2 give the 2nd
> message.
> 
> I deleted all the title entries and entered them again.  That didn't help.
> Then I downloaded the OCLC record again and overlaid the old.  That didn't
> help either.
> 
> Any ideas?  
> 
> Sue Ellen Ronk, Technical Services Librarian	e-mail: sronk@xxxxxxxxxx
> Ashland University Library -- ASC   		voice:  419-289-5409
> Ashland, OH  44805            			fax:    419-289-5422
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