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

[Charlie Savage]

> Great! What about:
> 
>   
> <dc:format>osgeo:http://geonetwork3.fao.org/ows/1[application/vnd.ogc.wms]</dc:format>

Can you just copy what Atom does?

<link type="application/vnd.ogc.wms" 
href="http://geonetwork3.fao.org/ows/1"/>

That seems like a much neater solution than having to invent arbitrary 
rules for parsing the content of <dc:format>.

> 
> 'osgeo' is a hierarchical scheme name as required by the URI RFC 2396. 
> Let's call it an osgeoURL. It consists of an underlying URL-reference 
> followed by the mime type in brackets. An osgeoURL can be defined with 
> the following ABNF:
> 
>     osgeoURL = "osgeo:" URI-reference "[" mime-type "]"

Its almost always a bad idea to invent new URI schemes.

http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-scheme


Charlie
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