getRegistry question

[KevinBenson]

I sent this earlier e-mail to the reg-dm list earlier when it was meant 
for the registry list.

KevinBenson wrote:
> Have one question.
> 1.)  Do you think we need a getRegistry method to the RI?  Currently 
> we do "not" have a getRegistry interface method.  It would be quite 
> simple, it would have no parameters just simply return the main 
> registry type for "that" registry.  If my memory is correct I think we 
> might have had it a very long time ago to the RI, but for some reason 
> we dropped it.  The use would be for clients to determine if XQuery is 
> supported or extendedSearches can be done.   I guess optionally they 
> can sort of get this information from the RofR (not sure how the 
> client would determine which registry is nearby).  This seems like 
> quite an easy interface method to add and could be quite useful.
>
> cheers,
> Kevin
>