RE: content-type for Zeerex/Explain

["Ray Denenberg" <raydenenberg@starpower.net>]

I wish to follow up on this discussion.

Do we really want to piggyback on the content type 'application/sru+xml'?
Yes, it will work, but is it an awful cludge or an  acceptable approach?   

The argument that an Explain file is, after all, an SRU response, seems a
bit tortured. I'm not convinced it's a bad approach, just not convinced it's
right.   It avoids reqistering another content type, a huge pain, to be
sure, but
one thing that bothers me about this, it isn't as easy as it seems, if we
extend the defintion of application/sru+xml to apply to Explain, then we are
going to have to extend the SRU response schema to include Explain, aren't
we?


--Ray



-----Original Message-----
From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors [mailto:ZNG@loc.gov] On
Behalf Of Adam Dickmeiss
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:05 AM
To: ZNG@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV
Subject: Re: content-type for Zeerex/Explain

On 2010-06-15 16:38, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> application/xml is probably fine as the content type in a response.
> But, if I want to provide a pointer to a server and indicate a mime 
> type in the link, something richer than application/xml would be
desirable.
>    
OK. Thanks for clarifying.

/ Adam
> Ralph
>
>    
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Dickmeiss [mailto:adam@indexdata.dk]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:16 AM
>> To: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
>> Cc: LeVan,Ralph
>> Subject: Re: content-type for Zeerex/Explain
>>
>> On 2010-06-14 22:52, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
>>      
>>> We just discussed that during our Oasis phone call this morning.
>>>        
> We've
>    
>>> applied to IANA for application/sru+xml.  Since an Explain record is 
>>> what you get when you send a request to an SRU server with no 
>>> parameters, we figure that the application/sru+xml covers the
>>>        
> Explain
>    
>>> response as well as the searchRetrieveResponse.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Please remind me why application/xml is not good enough. I mean, SRU
>>      
> is
>    
>> an XML application, no? And do SOAP tools allow you to customize this?
>>      
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> [mailto:ZNG@loc.gov]
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 4:48 PM
>>>> To: ZNG@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV
>>>> Subject: content-type for Zeerex/Explain
>>>>
>>>> Is there a MIME/IANA Content Type for an SRU/ZeeRex Explain
>>>>          
> document?
>    
>>>> There doesn't seem to be one registered, is there one conventional?
>>>>
>>>> Or just use application/xml?
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure what SRU itself does, but what I'm doing is just
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> returning
>>>
>>>        
>>>> a raw Explain XML document, in some cases. My app is not actually
>>>>          
> SRU,
>    
>>>> but is using some parts of it.
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>        
>>      
>