- </screen>
- <para>
- Metaproxy is a more capable alternative to
- <ulink url="http://www.indexdata.com/yazproxy/">YAZ Proxy</ulink>,
- being more powerful, flexible, configurable and extensible. Among
- its many advantages over the older, more pedestrian work are
- support for multiplexing (encapsulated metasearching), routing by
- database name, authentication and authorisation and serving local
- files via HTTP. Equally significant, its modular architecture
- facilitites the creation of pluggable modules implementing further
- functionality.
- </para>
- <para>
- This manual will briefly describe Metaproxy's licensing situation
- before giving an overview of its architecture, then discussing the
- key concept of a filter in some depth and giving an overview of
- the various filter types, then discussing the configuration file
- format. After this come several optional chapters which may be
- freely skipped: a detailed discussion of virtual databases and
- multi-database searching, some notes on writing extensions
- (additional filter types) and a high-level description of the
- source code. Finally comes the reference guide, which contains
- instructions for invoking the <command>metaproxy</command>
- program, and detailed information on each type of filter,
- including examples.
- </para>
+ </screen>
+ <para>
+ Metaproxy is a more capable alternative to
+ <ulink url="&url.yazproxy;">YAZ Proxy</ulink>,
+ being more powerful, flexible, configurable and extensible. Among
+ its many advantages over the older, more pedestrian work are
+ support for multiplexing (encapsulated metasearching), routing by
+ database name, authentication and authorisation and serving local
+ files via HTTP. Equally significant, its modular architecture
+ facilitites the creation of pluggable modules implementing further
+ functionality.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This manual will briefly describe Metaproxy's licensing situation
+ before giving an overview of its architecture, then discussing the
+ key concept of a filter in some depth and giving an overview of
+ the various filter types, then discussing the configuration file
+ format. After this come several optional chapters which may be
+ freely skipped: a detailed discussion of virtual databases and
+ multi-database searching, some notes on writing extensions
+ (additional filter types) and a high-level description of the
+ source code. Finally comes the reference guide, which contains
+ instructions for invoking the <command>metaproxy</command>
+ program, and detailed information on each type of filter,
+ including examples.
+ </para>