Capabilities Response, Proposal I

General Idea

We could add more information to this capabilities request. Everything related to machine readable data describing the capabilities, abilities of a providers resource like the limit to the number of returned records. Also every concept should include a flag indicating whether it is searchable.

Information we would like to add to the capabilities:

• provider configuration parameters affecting the response:
  • minQueryTermLength
  • maxSearchResponseRecords
  • maxInventoryResponseRecords
• type & version of the protocols supported by a software
• type of FilterOperators supported by a software
  • logical
  • comparative
  • functions * min, max * len
  • SpatialOperators
• type of operations or RequestMethods supported
• is ContentCompression supported ?
• ConceptualSchemas and their "mapped" concepts supported (see above)
• a slot for security related information
  • access restriction
  • encryption mechanisms

Example

<capabilities>
   <configurations>
      <minQueryTermLength>3</minQueryTermLength>
      <maxSearchResponseRecords>100</maxSearchResponseRecords>
      <maxInventoryResponseRecords>1000</maxInventoryResponseRecords>
   </configurations>
   <protocols>
      <protocol schema="http://www.altova.com" name="String"/> *
   </protocols>
   <filter>
      <comparative>
         <operator name="String" type="String"/> *
      </comparative>
      <logical>
         <operator name="String" type="String"/> *
      </logical>
      <function>
         <operator name="String" type="String"/> *
      </function>
      <spatial>
         <operator name="String" type="String"/> *
      </spatial>
   </filter>
   <operations>
      <operation requesttype="String"/> *
   </operations>
   <compression>
      <method name="zip"/> *
   </compression>
   <conceptualSchemas>
      <schema namespace="http://www.altova.com"> *
         <concept searchable="1" path="/abcd/efg/@h"/> *
      </schema>
   </conceptualSchemas>
   <security>Text</security>
</capabilities>

with* indicating repeatable elements