In the various bundles of good ideas that represent result set "standards" in the library and greater world, apart from the atom/opensearch <totalResults> element, is there an expectation of how one should package a number when that is *all* that is being requested? Use Case: dear dataset: if I asked you for "steamboat" records, how many would you send me? signed: curious dear curious: 12 signed: dataset I'm inclined to return just the number as Content-Type: text/plain. Clearly the semantics of the query string require a mutual understanding, but that's not my specific concern here. Walter