Dan Mullineux writes:
> I feel a bit embarrassed to admit I didn't realise that SRU was
> that flexible. However I can see how quickly this sort of
> extensibility can evolve into different flavours of a standard,
> which can easily make things harder.
Yes, that _could_ happen. We've not seen it yet, though. The SRU
Maintenance Agency is very good about registering and listing SRU
objects (e.g. extensions, CQL context sets, record schemas) so there's
never yet to my knowledge been a situation where two groups have
independently invented the same thing in different ways.
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his bottom burned off, / And his feet ..." -- Monty Python and
the Holy Grail.
Received on Tue Jan 16 2007 - 04:15:36 EST