Re: Requesting XML records via Z39.50

Ray Denenberg writes:
 > So, we registered 1.2.840.10003.5.109.10 as the record syntax for
 > XML, for use as just described.  Then someone asked "XML version
 > 1.0 or 1.1"?  So we registered 1.2.840.10003.5.109.10.1.0 and
 > 1.2.840.10003.5.109.10.1.1 for these versions and designated
 > 1.2.840.10003.5.109.10 as "no specific version". Why did we
 > register these version specific identifiers? Because we thought we
 > had to; we didn't know any better at the time.
 > 
 > Three things in particular led to the implementor agreement, to use
 > 112 and put the schema in the element set name parameter.

... and let's not even get into Index Data's misappropriation of
1.2.840.10003.5.109.11 to represent application/xml as opposed to
text/xml :-)

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