Re: [search-ws] [Issue] Search response can only return XML records

["Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>]

> Personally I think a better solution would be to have a normative XML
> wrapper as described for passing binary content along the lines of:
>
> <blob xmlmime:contentType="...">....</blob>
>
> Which is one of the normative record structures that clients and servers
> can use. In essence this is what you are proposing, but we make it a
> record type rather than part of the protocol.


Not sure what you mean by a "record type". In fact I'm not clear on why we
need to do anything at all.  If a record is supposed to carry, say, a photo,
then the schema for that record will know that, and it will define the
appropriate element(s), using the xmlmime namespace as above.  Why do we
need to define anything?

--Ray