- From: Robert Sanderson <azaroth@liverpool.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:31:37 +0100 (BST)
- To: Sebastian Hammer <quinn@indexdata.dk>
- cc: Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>, <www-zig@w3.org>
> >On the retrieve side, an XSLT with XPath expressions is
> >simply applied to make records into whatever syntax is
> >desired. I suspect many Z39.50 implementors are already
> >supporting the use of externally-defined stylesheets.
>
> Yes, this is a good notion. Actually, given a known initial schema, it
> makes sense for the client to submit an XSLT stylesheet to request a
> transformation of each result set record prior to shipment. In my mind,
> this is exactly equivalent to the use of Espec-1, only more powerful, and
> standardised to boot.
Can't we do that now by giving a URI in elementSetNames which refers to an
XSLT style sheet, rather than dumping potentially very long stylesheets
dynamically at the server for every request? For retrieval purposes,
specifying a style sheet and specifying a schema for the record to be
returned in result in the same outcome -- you get the record in a certain
format.
Rob
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