[OAI-implementers] Schema for Vanilla XML?

Hammond, Tony t.hammond at nature.com
Thu Oct 8 08:35:41 EDT 2009


Thanks, Simeon.

Suspected as much but good to see that confirmed. Also wanted to doublecheck
there wasn't any standard issue wrapper schema for this.

Cheers,

Tony



On 6/10/09 14:27, "Simeon Warner" <simeon.warner at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
> 
> We have dealt with this in the context of exchanging ORE resource maps via
> OAI-PMH [1]. One can create a schema that says that inside a wrapper element
> then content need only be well-formed and not accord to a schema. You can see
> this in the schema for RDF content:
> 
> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/rdf.xsd
> 
> which defines an <RDF> wrapper element and says that the content is:
> 
> <sequence maxOccurs="unbounded">
>    <any namespace="##any" processContents="lax"/>
> </sequence>
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Simeon
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/discovery#OAI_PMH
> 
> Hammond, Tony wrote:
>> Hi:
>> 
>> Pardon me as this is probably a very dumb question. But how might one send
>> vanilla XML (either with DTD or without - but no schema) as an OAI-PMH
>> metadata record? That is, to use OAI-PMH as a delivery mechanism for
>> arbitary XML.
>> 
>> Is there any generic schema-based XML wrapper that could be used? Or could
>> the XML be sent as oai_dc property? Or might there be some other way to
>> approach this?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
>> 
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