Re: Returning single values from multivalued attributes

[dboreham@netscape.com (David Boreham)]

Helmut Volpers wrote:

>
> > I find it surprising and confusing that the behavior is different when
> > an attribute has multiple values vs. when it only has one.
>
> I didn't follow the complete discusion but what is surprising ?
> When I have a single valued attribute I don't need a matchedValuesOnly
> because if it
> match you get it back and need no additional flag.

I think the problem is that you might not know in advance whether it's
single or multi-valued.