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Subject: Re: [search-ws] recordPacking: No Schema Change Required
You've jumped way ahead of me as I'm still trying to make sense out of this. You didn't answer the questions I had. So tell me: 1. The feature you desire would be meaningful/useful only in the case where the response format is other than application/sru+xml. Right? 2. There will be some cannonical mapping of application/xml+sru to other formats -- json, ATOM and so the 'unpack' directive says that a particular variation (i.e. unpacked) of that mapping should be used? --Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hammond, Tony" <t.hammond@nature.com> To: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>; "OASIS SWS TC" <search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [search-ws] recordPacking: No Schema Change Required > Hi Ray: > >> And then Ralph's question I think is, if you are not getting the response >> in >> application/xml+sru then why does it matter? Is the answer that you > > I guess the simple answer is "Gosh!" > > We seem to have gone to all this trouble to define an API for SRU which > includes a get-out-of-jail-free parameter 'httpAccept' where we suddenly > don't seem to care what comes back. > > At which point I wonder about the utility of SRU. > > The real jewel is CQL - and we're already anyway in danger of > overcomplicating that. > > And while various extension formats could be standardized for SRU > responses > I don't know how scalable an effort that would be. And would one want to > even control that at a serialization level? (I guess, to be honest, I am > more mindful of something like RDF which has a fixed data model and can be > variously serialized.) > > I am a little surprised that suggesting a new enumeration type for an > established parameter (and which has no schema implications) is suddenly a > big deal in a draft revision that is adding in Facets, Accept and Result > Count Precision parameters. > > For now though we will be going live with this non-standard addition. But > then we're using 'httpAccept' which is also non-standard - at this time. > :) > > Cheers, > > Tony > > > ******************************************************************************** > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is confidential and should not be used by anyone > who is > not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in > error > please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other > storage > mechanism. Neither Macmillan Publishers Limited nor any of its agents > accept > liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and > not > expressly made on behalf of Macmillan Publishers Limited or one of its > agents. > Please note that neither Macmillan Publishers Limited nor any of its > agents > accept any responsibility for viruses that may be contained in this e-mail > or > its attachments and it is your responsibility to scan the e-mail and > attachments (if any). No contracts may be concluded on behalf of Macmillan > Publishers Limited or its agents by means of e-mail communication. > Macmillan > Publishers Limited Registered in England and Wales with registered number > 785998 > Registered Office Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke RG21 6XS > ******************************************************************************** >
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