There is shown and described a definition for defining searching, filtering and sorting requests which seeks to provide a more succinct and efficient language in order to minimize transmission size and parsing/processing requirements while facilitating common and useful search/filter/sort contingencies. The language allows for filtering a data set by comparing a single field of all instances of the data against a static or dynamic value, then, optionally, to order the result set in ascending or descending order. All instances in the data set may be obtained without searching/filtering.