From 7a411fea2da77ae3b808a4c55deebdcf8e5dc857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Dickmeiss <adam@indexdata.dk>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:53:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove section "Connecting to non-standard resources"

This section does not contain relevant information today.
We have section "Connectors to non-standard databases" still.
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 doc/book.xml |   70 ----------------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 70 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/book.xml b/doc/book.xml
index 1397433..ef73ac9 100644
--- a/doc/book.xml
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@@ -657,76 +657,6 @@
 
   &sect-ajaxdev;
 
-  <section id="nonstandard">
-   <title>Connecting to non-standard resources</title>
-   <para>
-    Pazpar2 uses Z39.50 as its switchboard language -- i.e. as far as it
-    is concerned, all resources speak Z39.50, its webservices derivatives,
-    SRU/SRW and SOLR servers exposing Lucene indexes. It is, however, equipped
-    to handle a broad range of different server behavior, through
-    configurable query mapping and record normalization. If you develop
-    configuration, stylesheets, etc., for a new type of resources, we
-    encourage you to share your work. But you can also use Pazpar2 to
-    connect to hundreds of resources that do not support standard
-    protocols.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    For a growing number of resources, Z39.50 is all you need. Over the
-    last few years, a number of commercial, full-text resources have
-    implemented Z39.50. These can be used through Pazpar2 with little or
-    no effort. Resources that use non-standard record formats will
-    require a bit of XSLT work, but that's all.
-   </para>
-   
-   <para>
-    But what about resources that don't support Z39.50 at all?
-    Some resources might support OpenSearch, private, XML/HTTP-based
-    protocols, or something else entirely.
-    Some databases exist only as web user interfaces and
-    will require screen-scraping. Still others exist only as static
-    files, or perhaps as databases supporting the OAI-PMH protocol.
-    There is hope! Read on.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    Index Data continues to advocate the support of open standards. We
-    work with database vendors to support standards, so you don't have
-    to worry about programming against non-standard services. We also
-    provide tools (see <ulink
-    url="http://www.indexdata.com/simpleserver">SimpleServer</ulink>)
-    which make it comparatively easy to build gateways against servers
-    with non-standard behavior. Again, we encourage you to share any
-    work you do in this direction.
-   </para>
-   
-   <para>
-    But the bottom line is that working with non-standard resources in
-    metasearching is really, really hard. If you want to build a
-    project with Pazpar2, and you need access to resources with
-    non-standard interfaces, we can help. We run gateways to more than
-    2,000 popular, commercial databases and other resources,
-    making it simple 
-    to plug them directly into Pazpar2. For a small annual fee per
-    database, we can help you establish connections to your licensed
-    resources. Meanwhile, you can help! If you build your own
-    standards-compliant gateways, host them for others, or share the
-    code! And tell your vendors that they can save everybody money and
-    increase the appeal of their resources by supporting standards.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    There are those who will ask us why we are using Z39.50 as our
-    switchboard language rather than a different protocol. Basically,
-    we believe that Z39.50 is presently the most widely implemented 
-    information retrieval protocol that has the level of functionality
-    required to support a good metasearching experience (structured
-    searching, structured, well-defined results). It is also compact and
-    efficient, and there is a very broad range of tools available to
-    implement it.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
   <section id="unicode">
    <title>Unicode Compliance</title>
    <para>
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1.7.10.4