On 4 Feb 2004 at 17:25, Mike Taylor wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:15:22 +0100
> > From: Theo van Veen <[log in to unmask]>
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> > The xPath and dc-record issue from a different perspective:
> > [blah blah blah]
> > Proposal: lets introduce dc_brief and dc_full as predefined record
> > schemas implying a servers choice for the record schema that comes
> > closest to what is asked. BTW the stylesheet can find out about the
> > root tag so we do not need to specify that.
>
> What, _again_?!
>
I can not remember having this brought up before. But the current approach seems
rather short sided to me when we take into account metasearches and it illustrates that
we did not learn from the past. Lets take the world as it is and not as we want it to be.
With the current approach people will start putting all kind of non-dc garbage in the dc-
record because that will be the only schema they recognize from explain. And nobody
minds because they know that the client's xslt just ignores the garbage. And for dc-
variants they will invent other ways out of the recordSchema scope. We will not have
control if others find easier ways to do the things that we did not make easy enough.
Given this warning, I will keep silent on this issue.
Theo
