> 10. Should there be a response schema for SRW?
> Some think we shouldn't be returning an XML record described by a schema,
but rather
> a searchResponse object encoded and decoded by the SOAP toolkits who
create an XML
> document based on the SOAP schema. That way we don't get a string as a
response that
> we have to parse. That's why we use SOAP (otherwise, we could make up our
own protocol
> and skip the SOAP overhead).
> However according to a different interpretation of the SOAP spec, this
SOAP feature can be used only > in conjunction with an external XML schema.

I am now convinced that the latter is the case. So, there is an SRW
responseSchema. Some fortunate few of us will be able to ignore it as the
schema corresponds to the naive encoding provided by our SOAP toolkits.

Ralph


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Denenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: issues list
>
>
> From the recent discussions I've added three new issues (7-9) at:
> http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/issues.html
>
> Please tell me if there are issues missing from the list.
>
> --Ray
>