On 10 Aug 2003 at 17:47, LeVan,Ralph wrote:

> I completely disagree.
>
> Right now, the metasearchers are scraping screens and doing all sorts of
> stuff that is unique to each site.  They understand the need to customize
> the client to the server.  They absolutely understand that they can't send
> exactly the same thing to an arbitrary list of servers and expect to get
> anything useful back.

But isn't that just what we are trying to solve? I get the feeling that we have different
objectives.

Theo

>
> Ralph
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theo van Veen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: Betr.: Re: xPath in searchRequest
>
>
> On 8 Aug 2003 at 22:19, Matthew J. Dovey wrote:
>
> >
> > More seriously, we are straying onto metasearch requirements territory
> > here. I suspect that one of their requirements and a reason I suspect
> > that might give for not considering SRU/SRW is that they do expect a
> > single string to work on an arbitrary list of servers!
> >
>
> I agree. And I do not see any reason for not trying to meet such
> requirements. Actually I
> would expect metasearch being one of the objectives of SRU/SRW and I realise
> the
> danger of not meeting such requirements.
>
> Theo