The SCA$QUERY_GET_ATTRI_VALUE_T routine returns the value of any attribute as a character string. If the handle describes an attribute, then this routine returns the value of that attribute. In this case, the attribute_kind parameter must not be specified. If the handle describes an entity, then this routine returns the value of the first attribute of that entity that is of the kind specified by the attribute_kind parameter. In this case, the attribute_kind parameter must be specified. If you want to get more than one attribute value of a particular kind for an entity, you must use the routine SCA$QUERY_GET_ ATTRIBUTE. This applies only to the attribute kinds SCA$K_ATTRI_ NAME and SCA$K_ATTRI_ALL. The value of any kind of attribute can be returned by this routine, except for SCA$K_ATTRI_ALL. This routine will convert to character string those attributes whose data type is not character string. This routine does not accept the attribute-kind SCA$K_ATTRI_ALL as the value of the attribute_kind parameter. It is not meaningful to get just the first attribute without regard to attribute-kind. This routine will become obsolete in a future version of SCA. The SCA$GET_ATTRI_VALUE_T routine supersedes this routine.