- From: Joe Futrelle <futrelle@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:55:45 -0500
- To: ZIG <www-zig@w3.org>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:19:44PM +0100, Robert Sanderson wrote: > Err.... > No session support? No separate search/present? No ASN/BER ? No multiple > record syntaxes? No -scan-? > > Getting rid of these makes it next to useless in context. ... I very much agree that dumbing down Z39.50 is a dangerous game. However I strongly disagree that ASN/BER should be preserved. XML + XML-Schema can do 99% of what ASN/BER allows Z39.50 to do. What is the feeling of ZNG proponents about XER? To me the advantage it has over XML-Schema is its nice, simple system for encoding binary data. A much more conservative approach to "modernizing" Z39.50 is to encode protocol messages in XER and transport them over HTTP, say in SOAP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joe Futrelle | "She chafed Falmouth, although Ellie Technical Lead | wasn't unadorned. In spite of her, we Emerge / SDT / DMV / NCSA | might be exiling them." -- Prof. Will http://emerge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ | Ed
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