I was talking to Dan Brickley (RDF,W3C,Semantic Web,etc) about the XPath
schema stuff, and he asked if SRW was SOAP or REST. He was much approving
when I said both and described SRW vs SRU. His first comment was that for
REST it would be cool if you could generate at least a simple interface
from a style sheet. (which of course we already do)
Reason: You can then hyperlink searches and or records our of web
pages/blogs/whatever and have it be more than just a random bunch of XML
to the end user.
The W3C are starting the RDF Data Access Working Group to look at how to
send queries to a remote RDF data store and get back results. Using SOAP
or REST. I'm not a W3C member, but it sounds interestingly like SRW.
Rob
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> > From: Mike Taylor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > ... or you could write a non-dumb client?
> A valid point. I got a number of reasons to do it anyway.
> 1) Pointing a dumb browser at an SRU server and have an interface appear is
> a pretty cool demonstration of the fact that Explain works. But, it has to
> 2) I prefer not to deploy software. If a dynamically loaded stylesheet on
> my server can cause an interface to appear in a browser, then that's good.
> 3) Sometimes you don't have access to a specialized client.
> 4) It's a pretty cool demonstration!
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