Re: [search-ws] recordPacking - A Proposal

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

Hi Ralph:

Actually I don't know why we are making such heavy weather of this. This is
not a mathematical exercise in identifying permutation groups. Just data
exchange between consenting applications.

I would suggest there is a logical unpacking for data properties, same as
there is a logical way to go when you're submerged under water and busting
for air. Data likewise would head homewards.

And this is borne out by consumer apps (e.g. RSS readers, browsers, etc)
that are likely to find known properties (mostly DC, I guess) at the item
level rather than buried down in the architecture.

And then you would argue why not make this the default version, and I would
say because then we break symmetry with the canonical SRU/XML record. And
because doing it my way XML formats can a) deliver the original XML data
record (schema intact) as well as b) deliver a consumer app friendly
version.

Tony 

 

On 16/4/10 14:42, "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hammond, Tony [mailto:t.hammond@nature.com]
>> 
>>     2. A "recordPacking" parameter suggests a value set of "packed"
> and
>> "unpacked" (or alterantely boolean equivalents)
> 
> Can you explain how it is that this is only a Boolean choice?  It seems
> to me that records can be unpacked in more than one way.
> 
> Ralph
> 


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