> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:43:38 -0400
> From: Eliot Christian <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Will anyone else speak up for SRW?
>
> If you were to abandon the SOAP version of SRW, you could kiss
> goodbye to any chance that Microsoft would pick up this stuff.  And
> there's a whole bunch of implementors who will come on board as soon
> as Microsoft does.

OK, that's a strong argument.  And with Larry's as well, I guess I am
ready to back down on the idea of striking the fatal blow to SRW.
Still and all, I'd like to see the documentation radically overhauled
so that there is one core document, analogous to
        http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
, that tells you all you need to know to implement SRU; and then a
bunch of explicitly ancillary documents on SRW as a variant of it.

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