Re: [Treebase-devel] PhyloWS, CQL, NeXML on TreeBASE2

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On Jul 3, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Rutger Vos wrote:

>> I notice that while the following produces a hit of one record:
>> http://8ball.sdsc.edu:6666/treebase-web/phylows/taxon/find?query=tb.title.taxon==Homo
>> ...yet I'm unable to get any results via rss:
>> http://8ball.sdsc.edu:6666/treebase-web/phylows/taxon/find?query=tb.title.taxon==Homo&format=rss1
>> Is my syntax incorrect?
>
> I don't know - I *am* getting an rss feed with a single item returned.
> Maybe you should "view source" to see it?

Ah... indeed, it works for FireFox and Camino, but it does not work  
for Safari (says "zero articles").

>> Also, I believe that this should give me a list of trees:
>> http://8ball.sdsc.edu:6666/treebase-web/phylows/taxon/find?query=tb.title.taxon==Homo&recordSchema=tree
>> but instead it gives me a list of taxa. Perhaps my syntax is wrong?
>
> The recordSchema switch is only used in combination with format=rss1,
> the thinking being that the web interface behaviour should stay the
> same (we can switch tabs anyway to project a result set into a
> different context) but for programmatic access we do need recordSchema
> (because - no tabs).

Ok. Although perhaps this could be a low-priority feature to be added  
later. (I can imagine this being a useful feature for web sites like  
tolweb.org and eol.org, in which for each species page they can have a  
simple hyperlink called "trees in TreeBASE with taxon x" -- thus  
avoiding users to have to make another mouse-click on a tab once they  
get to TreeBASE.

I can't figure out why your rss does not work in Safari. For example,  
these two urls produce, more or less, the same content since they are  
making the same query:

http://8ball.sdsc.edu:6666/treebase-web/phylows/taxon/find?query=tb.title.taxon==Homo&recordSchema=tree&format=rss1
http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/find/tree/?query=taxon_name+any+Homo&operation=searchRetrieve&recordSchema=pc

...by yours says "0 articles" in Safari while mine says "25 articles".  
Could you try adding "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>" as a  
header? Thats the only substantive difference between the two, as far  
as I can tell.

(also, it would be cool if yours included some other human-readable  
metadata -- like tree name, tree title, article citation, etc -- just  
a little synopsis so that people can use this in an RSS client)

bp