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Art Rhyno wrote:

>I made a big mistake along the way in trying to work with Voyager's call
>number setup in Oracle, and dragged Ross along in an attempt to get past
>Oracle's constant quibbles with rogue characters in call number ranges.
>The idea was to expose the library catalogue as a series of folders using
>said call number ranges. This part works well enough when the characters
>are dealt with, but breaks down a bit for certain formats. For example,
>the University of Windsor lumps most of its microfiche holdings in one
>call number with an accession number, and Georgia Tech does something
>similar with maps. This can mean individual webdav folders with many
>thousands of entries, and some less than elegant workarounds.
>
>
So you are replacing SQL calls with WebDAV?  Can you explain this a bit
further?

Andrew