sorry eric, i was reading straight from the documentation and according to
it it has no use.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It's not correct to say that rft_val has no use; when used, it should
>  contain a URL-encoded package of xml or kev metadata. it would be correct
> to say it is very rarely used.
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote:
>
>  ok no one shoot me for doing this:
>>
>> in section 9.1 Namespaces [Registry] of the OpenURL standard (z39.88) it
>> actually provides an example of using a URL in the rfr_id field, and i
>> wonder why you couldn't just do the same thing for the rft_id
>>
>> also there is a field called rft_val which currently has no use.  this
>> might
>> be a good one for it.
>>
>> just my 2 cents.
>>
>
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