If you are in the Java world, the Filters looks to provide the mechanism
you want.  http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/Filters.html

I'm just reading it now, but one of the uses for filters is " XSL/T
transformations of XML content-Targeting web application responses to
more that one type of client".

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
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> On Behalf Of Ashley Sanders
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: SRU Question re XML Processing
> 
> Ray,
> 
> > You're mixing schema of response with schema of records.  You
certainly
> > could returns records in XHTML, but you can't return the response in
> XHTML
> > (and be SRU conformant.)
> 
> Quite right. I think my brain must have gone awol yesterday.
> 
> I was looking at XHTML Modularization the other day:
> 
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/
> 
> and was wondering if this does offer a way for a protocol
> such as SRU to return a response as XHTML? A quote
> from the page at the above url:
> 
> "Modularization also allows for the extension of XHTML's layout and
> presentation capabilities, using the extensibility of XML, without
> breaking the XHTML standard. This development path provides a stable,
> useful, and implementable framework for content developers and
> publishers to manage the rapid pace of technological change on the
Web."
> 
> Another quote from elsewhere:
> 
> "Add extensions to XHTML, using XML, without breaking the XHTML
> standard."
> 
> Which sounds to me like you can return something as XHTML and
> include in it all the extra info needed to maintain the
> SRU protocol and without clients having to screen scrape to get
> at the data. Though I guess the result would be a radically
> different protocol, unless XHTML Modularization is SOAP
> compatible?
> 
> Does anyone know much about XHTML Modularization? Could this allow
> the development of a protocol that can satisfy both a human and
> machine user?
> 
> Ashley.
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