> The -real- issue here though is in scope -- that we can't carry record > metadata outside of the record data, and can't request record metadata in > a different schema to the data. Why not? We have a schema at: http://srw.o-r-g.org/schemas/rec/1.0/ (Ok maybe it's not quite a schema, but there is an instance example and a schema could be written in about 5 minutes.) I thought its purpose was to allow you to request a specific record according to that schema, in order to retrieve the record metadata. What am I missing here? --Ray