[MOBY-dev] observations about registrations with RDF

[Martin Senger]

Here are few comments and perhaps questions. But before that I would like
to stress that these issues are urgent NOW (sorry for the capital letters)
because we are changing libraries now and we need these issues to be fixed
(or explained) really soon. Thanks.

1) Testing registry seems to have still older version - it still returns 
RDF with CDATA. It would be good to have it restarted, or whatever it 
needs. The testing registry with the latest software is important 
especially now when we are testing new registration procedures.

2) The service description, as returned in the RDF, lost its CDATA 
protection. Perhaps it is correct, I do not know enough about RDF 
documents. I have just observed that the 'strange characters', 
such as '>', that I put into my service description, were returned 
escaped: the character '>' was escaped as '>' - which does not seem 
to be correct (but perhaps I am mistaken).

Anyway, I wonder why to play with escaping at all, why not to keep there 
CDATA. We have CDATA in service description just because we did not want 
to escape everything there - is that correct?

3) I also wonder where are all our LSIDs? There is no single LSID in the 
whole returned RDF. I thought that we expressed almost everything as LSIDs 
in biomoby (at least internally).

4) I use this list to strongly express how I agree with the last Rebecca 
email about being still able to deregister a service by calling a 
deregister method even if the service has been registered with the 
signatureURL.

5) Finally, just to make this list complete, I would like to remind the 
others that there had been a discussion about possibility to get RDF from 
the registry even for services that had been already registered. I would 
like to have this feature soon - because it may need an addition tag in 
the service object, so the sooner we know about it the better.

   With kindest regards,
   Martin

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