On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Mr Havercamp <mrhaverc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Therefore, I was wondering if there is some way of viewing DSpace item > records as raw XML? Alternatively if someone could suggest an > alternative method it would be much appreciated. This is an interesting question. The answer is yes, there IS a way, but I'm not sure you want to rely on it. There's a URL hack that will get you the METS for an item given its handle. If the usual URL for the item is http://example.com/handle/1234/56789, then you find the METS at http://example.com/metadata/handle/1234/56789/mets.xml. You could conceivably build your service on that, *but* DSpace has been known to change URL patterns in the past, so this strikes me as a wee bit dangerous. What I would be tempted to do instead is build a Manakin theme that shoots out just the XML you want, and give it a specific URL pattern to respond to. That way, if DSpace's URL hack changes, the most you need to do is fix your theme... you DON'T have to communicate with n developers working on projects that rely on your repository to tell them to fix URLs in their apps. Anybody done anything like this and have better advice? Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo ds...@library.wisc.edu Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
