> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:08:34 +0000
> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>> In the Z39.50 service you publish the record for the Z39.50
>>> service in IR-Explain---1.  In the SRW/SRU you publish the SRW/U
>>> record at the base URL.
>>
>> Yep. So two explain documents for a SRW/SRU/Z39.50 server that
>> features exactly the same resource behind it (Z39.50 supports
>> CQL+XML), due to non-repeatable serverInfo.
>
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't think this will be
> very common ;) And even if it does become common, it's not
> outlandish to have one record for Z39.50 and a different one for
> SRW/U.

Hmm.  To represent three closely related services, I would expect
either to need one record or three.  To need two does seem perverse.

I am slowly being persuaded towards multiple <serverInfo>s.

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