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LeVan,Ralph wrote: > > I’ve been giving more thought to SRU responses and have come to the > conclusion that the Atom Feed document should not be a mandatory > response format and should certainly not be the sole mandatory > response format. > > The problem is that Atom Feeds were not intended for dynamically > generated search results and have mandatory elements that are > important for syndicated blog feeds but are meaningless for us. > Specifically, they are the author, id and updated elements required on > every response. I can live with the mandatory title element, but the > others don’t work. > I had responded to above issues in an earlier email on this list. See recap below... What do you see as issues in the solution I proposed? > I’m still interested in figuring out how to use Atom Feeds as a > possible alternative response. It is clear that there are applications > that want to use them. I just hope that their assumption that they’ve > just gotten a list of blog entries from me matches up with the user’s > expectation that they just got a list of documents. > Farrukh Najmi wrote: > Dr R. Sanderson wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: >> >>> Let's see if this comes out better. A sample response record in ATOM: >> >> As Ross points out, ATOM has some requirements for validation. In >> particular there's quite a few mandatory elements both at the feed >> level and the entry level which aren't quite so easy to map into the >> SRU response while retaining the ATOM semantics, or without adding >> extra requirements to implementers. For example the updated time for >> the record. >> >> Rob > > There are only a handful of mandatory properties AFAIK. > > Implementations typically should know when a record is updated. The > search-ws spec can specify that implementations that do not have this > ability use a fixed time that can never be used in reality (e.g. > 1900-00-00T00:00:00Z ). > > Other mandatory values like those below can be required to have a > value of "Unknown" if implementations do not support this. > > /atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:title > /atom:feed/atom:author/atom:name > /atom:feed/atom:author/atom:email > > -- Regards, Farrukh Najmi Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com