- From: Ashley Sanders <zzaascs@irwell.mimas.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:21:09 +0000
- To: www-zig@w3.org
Mike Taylor wrote: > But as Rob went on to say, no-one > actually _does_ Explain. It's a tragedy, but there it is. Well, when I've got a few rather urgent jobs out of the way, I'll hopefully be installing a new COPAC target wich implements much more of full-fat Explain than we do now -- including TermList-Info and TermList-Details. Most of the coding is complete and it really wasn't hard to do (just tedious.) (This should please Rob even if no-one else uses it.) > (For extra credit: "Explain failed because for most servers there was > no obvious business case for implementing it. Cynics might think that some server vendors want to make it as difficult as possible for third party clients to search their databases. Ashley. -- Ashley Sanders a.sanders@mcc.ac.uk COPAC: A public bibliographic database from MIMAS, funded by JISC http://copac.ac.uk/ - copac@mimas.ac.uk
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