On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Mike Taylor wrote:
> > From: Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
> > You /can/ do this. Just assign it a URI, put it in your Explain
> > record and Robert's your father's brother.
>
> Well, that gives Theo the ability to have his clients _request_ the
> DCX schema, which is half of what he wants.  The other half, if I
> understand him correctly, is that he he wants to have a situation
> where a client asks for the DC schema, or the CIMI schema, or
> whatever, and the server unilaterally says, "No can do, but here's a
> DCX record".  (Right, Theo?)
>
> Now in out-of-the-box SRW/U, that's illegal.  But it's precisely the
> sort of requirement for which we introduced extraRequestData.  Theo,
> what you need to do for this is:

Ahh, yes, I agree with Mike's analysis of the requirements for returning
DCX unasked for.

> Is that clear?  Does everyone agree with it?  Should this example of
> how to use extensions be documented somewhere on the SRW/U web-site?

Probably.  I'll add an example page linked from the extensions page.

Rob

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