[Pipet Devel] Another XML proposal - Part 3.

[Rahul Jain]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, J.W. Bizzaro wrote:

> I thought about it some more, and it might work like this:
> 
> 
>   LocalAppBroker:   Here is biodata in LocusML 3.5.
>                     I want to align these two nucleotide sequences.
> 
>   RemoteAppBroker:  I have nucleotide sequence aligner 2.7.
>                     Let me check.
>                     Okay.  That will require viewer 5.6.
> 
>   LocalAppBroker:   I don't have that.  Send it embedded in the LocusML.

Hmmm... the way I see it, the last step is not necessary. The local app
broker or whatever should contact the Hub app broker and say I have data
in such and such format (use MIME for this?) could you please list the
available viewers? The user would then be presented with a list of viewers
and would choose to download the viewer, save to disk, etc. Sorta like the
way Netscape does it.

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