Re: Returning single values from multivalued attributes

[Helmut Volpers <helmut.volpers@icn.siemens.de>]

David Boreham wrote:
> 
> 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.

I mean you must not know whether it's single or multivalued, you should
get it back if it matches if matchedValuesOnly is that, independant
whether its single or multivalued.

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