Re: Proposal to modify Classifications in ebRIM

[Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>]

Kathyrn

You stated that
>However, invocation of that URL should not necessarily return the entire
classification scheme as an XML document.  Not all users will want to
retrieve an XML document if all they want to do is look at a specific
classification scheme.

What do you mean by "look" here? What format will the classification scheme
be in if it is not in XML? Its one thing to be able to query a
classification database node by node and another to be able to see all the
relationships that exist within a single classification scheme.

I think there are two real needs in Len's proposal:

a) to recover all the nodes and relationships within a classification scheme
in a single operation

b) to be able to identify any set of nodes in a classification scheme using
a web processable address based on the XPath specification.

Martin Bryan