EXPAND property: All instances?

[Bruce_Kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I have a simple question regarding the
EXPAND property.  In CAP-12-e it is described as:

   Description: If a CUA wishes to see all
of the instances of a
   recurring component the CUA sets EXPAND=TRUE in the "VQUERY"
   component. If not specified, the default is FALSE. Note that if
the
   CS has its "RECUR-EXPAND" CS property value set to false
then the
   "EXPAND" property will be ignored and the result will
be as if the
   "EXPAND" value was set to false.

My question is simply this:  Is
the CS supposed to return literally all instances of a repeating entry
even if they fall outside the bounds of the parameters in the VQUERY?

That is if I use:

   BEGIN:VQUERY
   EXPAND:TRUE
   QUERY:SELECT * FROM VEVENT
   WHERE DTEND >= '20031031T000000Z'
   AND DTSTART <= '20031031T235959Z'
   AND STATE() = 'BOOKED'
   END:VQUERY

to see my calendar for today, would
the CS literally return data that  had a DTSTART of tomorrow or next
week and even last week?  It seems to me that this violates the constraints
of the WHERE searching since those instances do NOT match the WHERE selection
criteria.   

It seems to me that if I wanted ALL
(or a particular bunch of) instances of a repeating entry there would be
more appropriate ways to get it.  That is, if I wanted to find all
instances of a repeating meeting (I can tell its repeating by the fact
it has a RECURRENCE-ID property) then I would simply use:

   BEGIN:VQUERY
   QUERY:SELECT * FROM VEVENT
   WHERE UID = 'FrodoFailed'
   AND STATE() = 'BOOKED'
   END:VQUERY

and I should get back all instances
then and nothing would violate the WHERE search criteria.  If I wanted
to find just instances that occur this month then Id use something like:

   BEGIN:VQUERY
   QUERY:SELECT * FROM VEVENT
   WHERE RECURRENCE-ID >= '20031001T000000Z'
   AND RECURRENCE-ID <= '20031031T235959Z'
   AND STATE() = 'BOOKED'
   END:VQUERY

and the CS would return only those instances
for this past month.

Can someone please explain the benefit
of using EXPAND:TRUE to violate the WHERE search criteria (or am I just
misreading it)??

Bruce
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