Re: [tdwg-tapir] {Definitely Spam?} Modification in theInventoryresponse

25 Oct 2005


      Agreed.
Donald
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Sent: 25 October 2005 14:33
To: Javier privat; tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org
Subject: Re: [tdwg-tapir] {Definitely Spam?} Modification in
theInventoryresponse
I like the idea.
It will make the inventory a little bit more "customizable" similar to the
searches.
Are there any objections or other preferred names for the new attribute?
Could be for example elementName, responseElement, responseName, tag,
tagname, name, renamed. I think I quite like tag.
And I think it should be optional and default to the <value> tag if not
supplied.
Markus
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 12:41
An: tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org
Betreff: [tdwg-tapir] {Definitely Spam?} Modification in the
Inventoryresponse
Dear all,
Samy Gaiji, from IPGRI, sent us yesterday an email with comments about
TAPIR. He consider the response format of the inventory operation
inconvenient. For those not remembering an inventory operation looks like
this:
Request:
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<request>
  <header />
  <inventory count='true' start='0' limit='50'
  xmlns:dwc='http://digir.net/schema/conceptual/darwin/2003/1.0'>
    <concepts>
      <concept path='dwc:/Country' />
      <concept path='dwc:/Genus' />
    </concepts>
  </inventory>
</request>
----
Response
-------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
    <header></header>
    <inventory>
        <record>
            <value>AUSTRALIA</value>
            <value>Calicium</Genus>
        </record>
        <summary start="0" totalReturned="50" totalMatched="73"  
next="50" />
    </inventory>
</response>
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He find hards to parse after that all concepts are named 'value' and having
to trust on that the elements are returned in the same order as they were
request. I don't know, for me this does not look like a big issue, but in
any case here is a proposal that makes possible to assign names to the
elements that are responded.
Request:
-----------------------------------
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<request>
  <header />
  <inventory count='true' start='0' limit='50'
  xmlns:dwc='http://digir.net/schema/conceptual/darwin/2003/1.0'>
    <concepts>
      <concept path='dwc:/Country' elementName='Country' />
      <concept path='dwc:/Genus' elementName='Genus' />
    </concepts>
  </inventory>
</request>
-------------------------------
Response:
-------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
    <header></header>
    <inventory>
        <record>
            <Country>AUSTRALIA</Country>
            <Genus>Calicium</Genus>
        </record>
        <summary start="0" totalReturned="50" totalMatched="73"  
next="50" />
    </inventory>
</response>
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You can find attached a modification of the latest protocol schema that
includes this.
What are your thoughts on this?
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