ok. i see. it would just shift the burden to the unapi client, which should probably be as simple as possible. the only mini-problem i need to solve is, to which unapi server to redirect the listformats request without an id, because the id would be the piece of information from which i'd determine the correct server. but i'll figure this one out.
On 12/5/06, Eric Hellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > when I suggested this during an earlier revision cycle, it was > soundly rejected as introducing undesirable complexity. I think that > was probably the correct decision. > > > >hi all, > >i got to come back to a question i was asking earlier: shouldn't there > >be a way, to declare multiple unapi-servers (via multiple link > >elements) on a page - possibly differentiated by id attribute? this > >would also require a way to link each abbr element to one of these > >unapi-servers (not too many attributes available for this, though). > >the use case i'm thinking of: livingreviews.org publishes several > >journals. each of these disseminates metadata about it's publications > >via a unapi server. now, on the portal page, we'd like to point to new > >publications in all journals, possibly providing unapi links already > >here. > >in this particular case, there would be several workarounds possible. i > >could just fake a unapi server for the portal by rewriting/redirecting > >unapi requests. i still think, a mechanism as outlined above may be a > >valuable extension of the unapi spec. > >best regards, > >robert > > -- > > Eric Hellman, Director OCLC Openly > Informatics Division > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 > tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 > http://www.openly.com/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gcs-pcs-list" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gcs-pcs-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
