> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Kent [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: 07 February 2002 02:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: explain
> 
> One reason I dislike it is that to me it is a bit against the 
> grain of what I see the target for SRW is. To be, SRW is to 
> provide programmers a nice easy API to Z39.50 (without them 
> even having to know its Z39.50). Dropping in a lump of XML 
> here and there for lots of different forms of extensibility 
> feels against the grain for a SOAP/RPC API. Its no longer a 
> simple API of functions.

I think the confusion has arisen from SOAP adoptions of XML schema (or a
subset of it) for giving a language neutral description of the API - in
effect duplicating IDL for CORBA. Re-using XML schema in this way is
clever, but you have to be careful to differentiate from using XML
schema as an interface definition language and XML schema as a
definition of an XML document...