Re: [PyWrapper-devel] Help on MOBY service creation

[Javier de la T. <ja...@gm...>]

> Hi Milko,.


> This is what I want to try. To begin, I have a question on the  
> BasisOfRecord element of the OccurrenceRecord data type: what does  
> it mean? I assume you might know about this because the data type  
> was created by GBIF.

Look at the ABCD documentation:
http://ww3.bgbm.org/abcddocs/AbcdConcept0400


> I am also starting to struggle with XSLT and... you can imagine...  
> With simple XML structures it is easy to work, but with the MOBy  
> stuff it's hard.

Actually with BioMOBY is pretty simple because the XSLT you have to  
produce just hve to take care of getting a value from and element  
using and Xpath. So we are actually using XSLT mainly only to use  
Xpath...

And be careful when constructing the xpaths! Follow the example in my  
getCoordinatesOfTaxon. As you know in BioMOBY a service must be  
prepared to recieved requests using data types that he might dont  
know. You just have to believe that the user is doing right and you  
take the data and process it. For this the xpath must be generic  
enough so that changes on the structure still work with it... if not  
you will not create compliant biomoby services.

I did not know, but using xpath in biomoby services to retrieve  
"agnostically" the contents of the requests is something normal, I  
asked in their mailing lists, so if you have troubles you could  
actually ask in this mailing lists for a suitable xpath for the new  
service you want to create.

Javi.