[Rets-dev] Looking for help with Retriever and Metadata

[Robert Davis]

I create my own decode values for the lookups in my database and do the
decodes myself. I download just the regular Compact format. 


Robert Davis


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From: rets-dev-bounces at rets.org [mailto:rets-dev-bounces at rets.org] On
Behalf Of JP
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:51 PM
To: Rets-dev at rets.org
Subject: Re: [Rets-dev] Looking for help with Retriever and Metadata


Hi Robert,

Thanks for your kind reply. And I too like to insist on doing a good
job, so it sounds like compact-decoded isn't the solution here? If
compact-decoded isn't the optimal way of retrieving this data, what's
the preferred way? XML? Applying Metadata somehow? But how? I apologize
for asking what surly is a basic question, but after banging my head
against the wall on this one, I'm still stuck!

Thanks so much, I really do appreciate the help!

best,
Jeff

On Mar 29, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Robert Davis wrote:

> I prefer to not use compact-decoded myself, as most "decode" values 
> aren't very useful. For example, a city with a code of "17" might have

> a decode value of "Houst" when what it really means is "Houston". I 
> think the blame for that generally falls on the MLS, not the companies

> implementing the RETS Servers. I know that there are a lot of people 
> out there displaying the information exactly the way it comes out of 
> the MLS, misspellings and abbreviations and all, but some of us insist

> on doing a better job than that.
>
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