repackaging sru responses.

Working with the yaz proxy - I want to
repackage the responses as valid RSS1.0, or atom.

But as I look at the style sheets, it seems as if each style
sheet gets 
one record at a time to process -
so I cannot generate the Rdf:List needed by RSS1.0; in fact,
I cannot 
process do any work in a style sheet
with yaz proxy that needs to package up the set of
responses.
So, at the moment, I have another proxy to do the list level
work.

Am I approaching this in the wrong way?
Thanks,
Rick

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Enrico Silterra wrote:
> Working with the yaz proxy - I want to
> repackage the responses as valid RSS1.0, or atom.
> 
> But as I look at the style sheets, it seems as if each
style sheet gets 
> one record at a time to process -

Correct. Record conversion XSLT stylesheets are workin on
one record a 
time. The SRU/SRW packaging (or Z39.50 packaging, for that
matter) are 
handles in low-level C-code in the YAZ libraries.

> so I cannot generate the Rdf:List needed by RSS1.0; in
fact, I cannot 
> process do any work in a style sheet
> with yaz proxy that needs to package up the set of
responses.
> So, at the moment, I have another proxy to do the list
level work.
> 
> Am I approaching this in the wrong way?

No, this is the very right way to do. Essentially, our YAZ
library 
speaks SRU/SRW and Z39.50, but not RSS or Atom, or OAI, or
..

Transforming into the other protocols means writing a web
server script 
  (in PHP, Perl, C-CGI ..) which parses the intended
protocol request, 
and makes a simple XSLT transformation for the response.

You are doing it the right way.

Marc Cromme, Index Data


> Thanks,
> Rick
> 


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