multiple capabilities of the same kind

[Paul Harrison]

On 2008-02 -15, at 15:09, Doug Tody wrote:

> Another common case might be two (eg) SIA services of different types,
> e.g., one finds only whole images, the other does cutouts, but they
> access the same data.
>
> It would seem that a search should look for services of a given type,
> possibly with other qualifiers such as the protocol version supported,
> or specific service capabilities.  Whether these are represented as
> multiple capabilities of a single resource, or separate resources,
> should not matter.  In effect what we search for are "capabilities"
> rather than what used to be separate service resources.
>
> In this case I don't see much point in trying to qualify the name
> attribute; we should just do a search over all capability attributes.
fine for searching, but what if you have written a script that wants  
to access only the cutout version of the resource - how to you  
reference that?

Dr. Paul Harrison
JBCA, Manchester University
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/jodrellbank