- From: Joe Futrelle <futrelle@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:43:16 -0600
- To: Michael Selway <mas@ssl.co.uk>
- Cc: www-zig@w3.org
Our group has a pre-XSLT tool called "Gazebo" that translates XML queries (in our own generic query syntax) into Z39.50. I have successfully used XSLT to do the same translation into Z39.50/XER. The upshot is that if you develop an XML query syntax it should be very easy to use XSLT to convert it into Z39.50/XER. See http://emerge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ for information about our tools, including Gazebo and our XER Java library. If you're interested I can send you the XSLT stylesheet for converting our XML query syntax into Z39.50/XER along with some example queries to translate. On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:24:52PM +0000, Michael Selway wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone know of any work done on expressing z39.50 searches in XML? > I realize XER is one answer. I wondered if anyone had done > anything higher level. > > The purpose isn't (in this case) for transmitting searches in XML, > but so that we can build and manipluate searches using standard > systems and languages, notably, of course, XSLT. > > Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joe Futrelle | "Did Seattle sweat me?" -- Vicky Technical Lead | Motherwell Emerge / SDT / DMV / NCSA | http://emerge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ |
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