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A standard that lets the same thing be done 2 ways (URL and XML) is going to
fail.


Oh, did I mention that ftp has two ways of transferring data (passive mode
and active mode which determine whether a known port is used or whether a
port is agreed between client and server), e-mail has numerous ways of
encoding attachments, Unicode has numerous encoding formats (UTF-8 UTF-16
etc.) - all abject failures of course ;-)

And just how many ways are there of doing the same thing in traditional
Z39.50?

(I'll shut up on this issue now)

Matthew