[georss] [Geodata] OpenSearch GEO, OAI-MPH, CSW, GeoRSS. All miss a defined way to transfer service information

[Schuyler Erle]

* On  9-Oct-2007 at  1:33PM PDT, Jeroen Ticheler said:
 
> So:
> <URI>application/vnd.ogc.wms, http://geonetwork3.fao.org/ows/1,  
> national_boundaries_africa, National administrative boundaries of  
> Africa</URI>
> <URI>application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml, http://www.fao.org/ 
> geonetwork/srv/en/google.kml?id=2&layers=sub- 
> national_boundaries_africa, National administrative boundaries of  
> africa, National administrative boundaries of africa</URI>
> 
> etc...
> This kind of formatting allows most clients to properly asses what  
> they can do with the URI provided and is easy to maintain as  
> mimetypes are pretty well defined.

I think you're on the right track with the MIME typing, but I'm
concerned about your syntax and semantics there. First off, your
example doesn't look like a URI :) and second, what if the title, URL,
or description contains a comma? I think you have the right idea but
I'd encourage you to look at structuring the representation
differently...

SDE