Re: Explain servers

In particular, categoryInfo, targetInfo, databaseInfo and attributeDetails

From this I build up a 'home page' for the server with targetinfo/news
disclaimer etc, a list of the available databases, and pages to search
them from.

I display the recordSyntaxInfo if requested, but as it's almost
certainly extremely esoteric for the end user I wouldn't consider it
/necessary/ (Nice of course on a per database level though to look for
'html' or 'sutrs' when displaying)

I haven't come across a server that handles more than the above, but will
add handlers for the other types if I find any.

Thanks :)

Rob

> We have one, somewhat sparsely populated, at bagel.indexdata.dk:210. I'd be
> interested in your feedback on what parts of Explain you're looking for -
> we pretty much only populate the categories that make sense to us.

> >I'm developing a Z39.50 client and am looking for publically accessable
> >explain servers to test this part of the code out on.

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