> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:08:32 +0100
> From: Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Probably the former is a lot easier. The query language of the
> > Amazon "advanced search" has (or used to have) all of the
> > functionality you'd want in a good Z39.50 Type-1 query
> > implementation. If they expose that same query language through
> > SOAP, we're home free.
>
> Unfortunately not. There are different SOAP requests for author
> searches vs keyword searches vs director searches (for movies) and
> so forth, all of which are the same apart from one parameter name,
> but also mean that they can't be combined :/
Then someone _please_ email them and tell them about SRW. Probably
Ray would be best, he has the most impressive-sounding title!
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