I haven't dug deeply, but the protocol concepts (and info formats) make sense, no?
I don't know enough to evaluate hints about protocol overlap/misuse, or whether it fits well into larger world-schemes. Introducing OpenSearch by Uche Ogbuji July 24, 2007 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/07/20/introducing-opensearch.html """ OpenSearch was originally developed at Amazon.com's A9 incubator. It's a specification under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, covering discovery and description documents for search engines, expression of queries, and the convention of RSS 2.0 or Atom Web feed results. It is very RESTful in nature and complementary to the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP). In fact, many have called for OpenSearch to serve as the query aspect of APP, which provides a way to access identified or located results, but no mechanism for ad hoc query. """ And, from a link on the above page, to http://www.opensearch.org/Home """ Introduction OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications. The OpenSearch response elements can be used to extend existing syndication formats, such as RSS and Atom, with the extra metadata needed to return search results. """ Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
