> Finally comes the defaults section.  Default values for all the search
> parameters are specified as well as the default record schema, default index
> set (what happens when an index prefix is not provided) and the default
> index (which happens to come from a different index set than the default
> index set.)

Why have a defaults section which just repeats the data above, when you
could have a default attribute on the data itself?


> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <searchRetrieveResponse xmlns="urn:z3950:ZNG_Prototype1">
>       <explainRecord>
>               <database name="ETDCAT Something about a Dissertation
> Catalog"
>                       baseURL="http://levan-r:8080/SRW/etdcat">
>                       A subset of the 3.5 million dissertation records in
> OCLC's WorldCat database
>                       </database>
>               <adminEmail url="mailto:[log in to unmask]" />

ZeeRex already handles all of this, although not in the exactly the same
way.


>               <recordSchemas>
>                       <recordSchema name="dc"
> urn="http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/09/20/dcmes-xml/dcmes-xml-dtd.dtd"
>                       </recordSchemas>

Our recordSyntax/elementSet elements.


>               <indexSets>
>                       <indexSet name="zxd"
> urn="http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/indexSets/zxd">
>                               <index name="title" />
>                               <index name="titleWords" />
>                               <index name="author" />
>                               <index name="authorWords" />
>                               </indexSet>

Indexset, index and name. (with Map, to distinguish it from title, etc)

>               <defaults>
>                       <startRecord value="1" />
>                       <maximumRecords value="10" />

Is startRecord useful information? When would a server not default to the
first record apart from with a sadistic or malicious administrator? :)

The only thing that we don't already do is maximumRecords, which I assume
is the max records that it can return in a single response. Which isn't
really a 'default' value that could be overridden?

Rob

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