Please let's not jump the gun on the scan discussion (which I hope will not
tangled into this thread). Or the rest discussion for that matter.
Matthew, can you draft up a message about Scan.
--Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrukh Najmi" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: OASIS/SRU: ATOM/SRU Response Schema
> Hi Rob,
>
> IMHO we can replace explain and scan with pre-defined indexes (or
> canonical queries) and not bloat the protocol. This also makes the
> search protocol more RESTful.
>
> See archived thread on this:
>
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/search-ws/200710/msg00046.html>
>
> BTW I have updated the issue list to fix links to archived discussion
> threads on each issue so the they can be accessed without needing to
> authenticate.
> The small issue list with these fixed up links are publicly available
here:
>
> <http://wiki.oasis-open.org/search-ws/issues>
>
> Dr R. Sanderson wrote:
> > Yes, I do still exist...
> >
> > I have no significant objections. It does bring SRU closer into line
> > with the way that the rest of the world seems to be going. OAI-ORE
> > [which has been eating up a lot of my time these past few months] uses
> > ATOM as its primary serialisation, so it would be nice to explore the
> > synergies between ATOM/SRU and ATOM/OAI-ORE.
> >
> > What are the intentions for Explain and Scan, which don't fit into the
> > ATOM response quite so conveniently?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Ray Denenberg wrote:
> >
> >> From: "Ryan Scherle" <>
> >>> Mandating Atom would have the practical effect of killing off the SRU
> >>> response format,
> >>
> >> Yes but what would be the practical effect of that? That's one of the
> >> questions the committee is curious about. How much is invested in that
> >> format, how much disruption would it cause an implementation to
> >> replace it
> >> with another, functionally equivalent format?
> >>
> >>> If it is possible to use Atom
> >>> in a way that feels like it was designed for search responses, great.
> >> Well, ATOM is used in OpenSearch.
> >>
> >> --Ray
> >>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh Najmi
>
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