RE: [search-ws-comment] searchRetrieve Accept Parameters

[Matthew Dovey <m.dovey@jisc.ac.uk>]

P.S. personally I actually agree with Tim's sentiments, but decided the use cases should overrule my sense of neatness...

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> From: Matthew Dovey [mailto:m.dovey@jisc.ac.uk]
> Sent: 12 August 2009 16:29
> To: Tim Williams; Hammond, Tony; search-ws-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: LeVan,Ralph
> Subject: RE: [search-ws-comment] searchRetrieve Accept Parameters
> 
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm supportive of urls that give some indication
> > of the format - and most implementors will likely expose different
> > formats via different URI patterns (its a little easier to dispatch on
> > anyway), the question is only whether that should be a part of the spec or
> not - and I suggest not.
> 
> Some of the client applications built using SRU have been very thin clients
> consisting of little more than client side XSLT generating a HTML interface. It
> is because of these use cases, that there was pressure to ensure that there
> was a mechanism within the spec to achieve all the functionality via URLs
> 
> Matthew
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