- From: Matthew Dovey <matthew.dovey@las.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:57:08 +0100
- To: "Alison Stevenson" <as@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk>, <www-zig@w3c.org>
- Cc: "Mike Boniface" <mjb@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk>
> We have had also had to give thought to specifying queries and returning > records which consist of more that simple text - in ARTISTE every record > consists of an image and related metadata and queries may consist of only > an image, only metadata, or a combination of a image and metadata. The > easy way to achieve this is simply to pass the URI of the image as a > string in the XML message but this has the consequence of requiring all > users to have access to a web server where they can publish their query > image. The better, but more, complex solution is to use the SOAP with > Attachments specification to send the image itself which is then > referenced from the message. Has anyone had any experience implementing > SRW using SOAP with Attachments they would like to share? This is an area which we need to flesh out more (and I've argued this with Ralph in the past). The current CQL is very much based around textual queries which I've argued against. However, apart from myself (who need to support audio and music queries) and now ARTISTE there does not appear to be many sending non-textual queries in Z39.50 (if there are please shout up!). Matthew
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