uri      The diagnostic URI.
details  Any supplementary explanation available.
message  A human readable message to display to the end user.

<details> could be type ANY, but currently isn't.

Details was supposed to be any sort of information useful in determining
exactly what went wrong.   And some of these are machine readable.
Look at the diagnostics list for details...

Rob

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Matthew J. Dovey wrote:

>> I can't seem to recall that discussion. Can someone summarize
>> it?  We spent
>> years designing Z39.50 diagnostics so that clients would do something
>> intelligent with them, before completely repudiating the idea.  What's
>> changed?
>
> I don't recall that discussion either. I'm pretty sure I'd have argued
> that if details were meant to be machine readable then its type should
> be xsd:ANY so that the diagnostic can define its structure as an XML
> structure rather than a formatted string (if I'd noticed that
> discussion).


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