Explain Conformance

An SRU server MUST provide an Explain document.  The Explain document MUST contain a <serverInfo> element with <host>, <port> and <database> subelements.  An HTTP URL constructed from the <host>, <port> and <database> elements must provide a sufficient base URL from which Explain and SearchRetrieve URLs can be built.

 

An SRU server SHOULD provide a <schemaInfo> element.  Even if the server does not allow clients to specify returned record schemas, it SHOULD specify the default schemas that records will be returned in, in a <schema> subelement.

 

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