On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Mike Taylor wrote: > > From: Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]> > > > The problem with doing this is if a 1.1. client send such a > > > request to a current 1.0 server, the server will return an > > Why can't we have version 1.0 servers and version 1.1 servers? If a > > version 1.0 server gets a 1.1 request it's going to fail it at the > > toolkit level because it doesn't conform to the spec. 1.0 talking > > to 1.0 will still work, as will 1.1 to 1.1 > That's pretty poor. In Z39.50, version 2 and version 3 clients can > interoperate just fine -- they negotiate the best shared level of > protocol support. If this stuff is meant to be The Next Generation, > it ought to do at least as well. Which would be great if we had sessions and a base level initRequest over which to negotiate ;) But I take it that you'd thus rather have 1.0 clients talking successfully to 1.1 servers. Just so I'm clear about what our XML would look like: <srw10:searchRetrieveRequest xmlns:srw10="http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/v1.0/" xmlns:srw11="http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/v1.1/"> <srw10:query>ccg.title = sword</srw10:query> <srw11:resultSetTTL>600</srw11:resultSetTTL> <srw10:startRecord>1</srw10:startRecord> <srw10:maximumRecords>5</srw10:maximumRecords> <srw11:recordPacking>xml</srw11:recordPacking> <srw10:recordSchema>http://srw.o-r-g.org/schemas/ccg/1.0</srw10:recordSchema> <srw11:recordXPath>/card/name | /card/type | /card/artist</srw:recordXPath> </srw10:searchRetrieveRequest> Yes? What about SRU, which doesn't have any convenient place to put this information? It's just out of luck? Or we're going to put in a new '&version=1.1' parameter? Rob -- ,'/:. Dr Robert Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 ,'---/::::::::::. Nebmedes: telnet: nebmedes.o-r-g.org 7777 ____/:::::::::::::. WWW: http://nebmedes.o-r-g.org:8000/ I L L U M I N A T I