Indexed Keywords
Arnold Rots
arots at xebec.harvard.edu
Mon Jul 20 17:42:57 EDT 1998
Thanks, Bill.
Silly me - I went to the index, looked up "indexed, keywords", found
the definition of a keyword in section 5.1.2.1, and discovered that
this definition is mute on the subject. Had I looked up "keywords,
indexed", then I would have found what I was looking for :-)
- Arnold
William Pence wrote:
> On page 9 of the draft NOST 100-1.2, an Indexed keyword is defined to have
> an appended *positive* integer count, which rules out starting the sequence
> with zero.
>
> -Bill Pence
>
> Arnold Rots wrote:
> >
> > I have a recollection that indexed keywords have to start at 1, i.e.,
> > Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 - not Q0, Q1, Q2, Q3.
> >
> > I couldn't find the explicit reference in NOST 100-1.2, but I'm sure
> > some recipient of this list server remembers ;-)
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