On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Mike Taylor wrote:
> > From: Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>

> > > It sounds like you're slipping from context sets into profiles.

> > But if a relation modifier (for example) simply requires extra data to be
> > returned for it to be useful, why does the client also have to request
> > that extra data separately?

> I am inclined to agree, even though it makes me uneasy. I think we
> should all be careful to bear Ralph's warning in mind as we design
> these babies, though: let's not slip from context-sets to profiles
> accidentally.

I'll put that in big red flashing neon in the documentation for each.
(Okay, maybe not big red flashing neon, but I'll put it in!)

We thus also need a 'profiles' section in the documentation.


> http://zthes.z3950.org/srw/current.html
> All comments are welcome.

Something you weren't to know, but I'm going to migrate all my SRW stuff
into srw.cheshire3.org for 1.1 (as o-r-g (online-roleplaying-games!) is
hardly the most appropriate place for it (with the possible exception of
the L5R database, I guess))

So can you relink the record metadata set as
    http://srw.cheshire3.org/contextSets/rec/1.0/
(even though that link says that the identifier is still the old one,
I'll update that today as well)


WRT the Explain section, I have two responses.

Answer 1:
ZeeRex does support saying that the database supports a profile in 2.0
with <supports type="profile">zthes</supports>

Answer 2:
If you support the ZThes schema, and all the indexes, then you support the
profile. All of this can be expressed in ZeeRex (obviously).


Rob

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