Re: [search-ws] recordPacking (Reprise)

["Hammond, Tony" <t.hammond@nature.com>]

Hi Ralph:

> Why not just do this for all your JSON responses and drop the unpacked
> idea entirely?  We're not dictating what you stick in your JSON.

I really do believe that the extension formats ought to be able to mirror
the standard (canonical) response as far as possible. That is, there should
be a version of record in each media type that corresponds reasonably
closely to the SRU/XML.

Having said that, for *practical purposes alone* there could be a more
streamlined delivery which unpacks the data for the client application. This
does not seem to be an unreasonable approach. The OpenSearch formats are by
nature looser organizations and admit of novel handling.

Because this is a new concept (record data packing) does not mean that it is
without merit. We find it to be very useful.

Tony




On 31/3/10 15:04, "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hammond, Tony [mailto:t.hammond@nature.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:51 AM
>> To: LeVan,Ralph; Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress; OASIS SWS TC
>> Subject: Re: [search-ws] recordPacking (Reprise)
>> 
>> OK - maybe there's a way out of this impasse.
>> 
>> The way we have been using the "unpacked" format is to float the
> properties
>> to the toplevel enclosing item which is where any OpenSearch type
> format
>> would reasonably expect to find them. (I used the unpacked form to
> maintain
>> fidelity with the XML schema.)
> 
> Why not just do this for all your JSON responses and drop the unpacked
> idea entirely?  We're not dictating what you stick in your JSON.
> 
> Ralph
> 


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