On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Adam Dickmeiss wrote:
> Mike Taylor wrote:

>>> One explain record represents one service interface to one database, not
>>> one database and any number of services which access it.  It's already
>> I agree.

> What is it that that makes multiple serverInfo so complicated?

<explain>
   <serverInfo protocol="SRW/U">
     <host>a.b.c</host>
     <port>2000</port>
     <database>abc</database>
   </serverInfo>
   <serverInfo protocol="FTP">
     <host>d.e.f</host>
     <port>21</port>
     <database>fgh</database>
   </serverInfo>
</explain>

Would be a perfectly legal, if semantically impossible, Zeerex record.

> serverInfo is ortoghonal to to indexInfo, schemaInfo etc.. And Z39.50
> supports CQL.. So that's the deal?

Zeerex supports more than just Z39.50 and SRW/U, and it has always taken
the position that one record represents one type of interface to one
database.

> I'd like to see how I publish multiple transports on a single URL (YAZ
> deliberately try to support both SRW and SRU at the same URL, for example).

I don't see why you think this is a problem?

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.

Or you have a registry that has all of the records in it.

Rob

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