I don't have a preference on this issue, but the discussion leads me to want
there to be a more formally defined syntax  than what's at the current draft
version of the 1.1 SRU definition,
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw1-1/sru.html, perhaps a bnf, or at
least prose that specifies more rigorously what we mean by a base url, and
what delimits it.  Someone want to draft something?

--Ray



----- Original Message -----
From: "Theo van Veen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: SRU examples


> This is OK. It is not the intention to have official SRU parameters to
preceed "?". It is
> just that it should be possible to have parameters being part of the
base-url without the
> client being aware of that parameters and in such a case the base-url may
end with
> "&"  rather than "?". An SRU request is in my opion baseurl + request. The
base-url is
> a given thing and the request is build by the client. The operation is
part of the SRU
> request and therefore a client has to be aware that parameter.
>
> Theo
>
>
> On 22 Dec 2003 at 14:48, Janifer Gatenby wrote:
>
> > Here is a new version of SRU examples taking into account comments by
Ralph
> > and Matthew on 19th December.  Currently the "?" precedes operation in
the
> > URL.  I realise that this may in fact change again following Eliot's and
> > Theo's comments. Regardless of where it is finally put, we should add
some
> > explanatory text in the SRU URL access mechanism document.
> >
> > Janifer
> >
> >
> >