New helper query interface method

[Ray Plante]

Hi,

> GetResource

I think it would be good to have an explicit identifier resolver function, 
even though this is possible directly with the constraint-based search.  
(In fact, we should define it as being equivalient to a search with the 
constraint "identifier='{ivo-id}'".)  An immediate use for this would be 
to check that an authority ID is not already registered; however, I can 
imagine other applications using this.  

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Matthew J. Graham wrote:
> But this is exactly the same as the OAI GetRecord method?

The proposal is to make it specifically part of the Search interface 
(which should be independent of the Harvesting interface).

cheers,
Ray