Jakob, try http://alcme.oclc.org/srw. This will get you to a page of
all the database I serve. (Each link is a pointer to an SRW/U server.)
All of them support scan.
Ralph
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
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> On Behalf Of Jakob Voss
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 9:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: [XML4Lib] Namespaces in SRU
>
> Hi!
>
> Thanks to Eric for your his quick response. I follow up to the SRU
> mailing list that I was not aware of
>
> Eric wrote:
>
> > Jakob, yes, namespaces are mandatory in SRU 1.1, but based on my
> > knowledge how they are declared is not standardized. I have found
this
> > to be one of the challenges to writing XSLT stylesheets against SRU
> > responses.
>
> XML without namespaces is just a tree of nodes where you have to guess
> about each node's meaning. Even better is to require an XML schema
like
> it is done in OAI. SRU/SRW is a big step forward compared to Z39.50
but
> when I read the comments on OpenSearch vs. SRW/SRU there is still an
> important step to go. Just some points I stumbled upon:
>
> * The spec is not clear enough (you should really consider using the
> w3c's definition of "MAY" and "MUST" )
>
> * This mailing list is pretty hidden. You should add
> http://sun8.loc.gov/listarch/zng.html to your homepage
>
> * I had to go to two mailing lists archives to finally find
> http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/SRUServerTester.html
>
> * I have not found any open server that supports the 'scan' operation.
> Maybe it's not that important but I you cannot even provide a full
> implementation the spec seems a bit like all of these
> suggested-standards that will never be widely adopted
>
> Can you point me to freely available SRU servers for testing? I found:
>
> * http://greta.pica.nl:1080/sru/ - SRU 1.0 only
> * http://alert.ockham.org/sru-server.cgi - failed on searching
> * http://krait.kb.nl/cgi-zoek/sru.pl - deliveres result records
without
> namespaces (see above)
> * http://mylibrary.ockham.org/sru-server.cgi - looks fine
>
> So I reason that Eric's server is the reference implementation that I
> was looking for ;-)
>
> Greetings,
> Jakob
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