Re: SRU indexes for Aleph

From: Mike Taylor <mike_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:00 +0100
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On 10 June 2010 15:10, Ere Maijala <ere.maijala_at_helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Quoting "LeVan,Ralph" <levan_at_OCLC.ORG>:
>>
>> Something's not right with this picture.  The YAZ Proxy IS the SRU server,
>> so it should be delivering up the Explain record.  If it has a configuration
>> file that defines the mapping from CQL indexes to z39.50 indexes, then it
>> has all the information it needs to populate the indexInfo part of the
>> Explain record.
>>
>> So, why no Explain record?
>
> The explain record is a static xml fragment, a part of the configuration
> XML. It is separate from the pqf mapping file. In the default Aleph config
> it's completely missing, although the YAZ Proxy distribution does have it.

Exactly.

(I know that's not a very substantial contribution, but Ralph did
explicitly ask for a comment from Index Data.)
Received on Thu Jun 10 2010 - 10:14:02 EDT