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-<chapter><title>Future Directions</title>
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+ <chapter id="future"><title>Future Directions</title>
+
+ <para>
+ We have a new and better version of the front-end server on the drawing
+ board. Resources and external commitments will govern when we'll be
+ able to do something real with it. Features should include greater
+ flexibility, greater support for access/resource control, and easy
+ support for Explain (possibly with Zebra as an extra database engine).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ &yaz; is a BER toolkit and as such should support all protocols
+ out there based on that. We'd like to see running ILL applications.
+ It shouldn't be that hard. Another thing that would be interesting is
+ LDAP. Maybe a generic framework for doing IR using both LDAP and
+ Z39.50 transparently.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The SOAP implementation is incomplete. In the future we hope
+ to add more features to it. Perhaps make a WSDL/XML Schema compiler.
+ The authors of libxml2 are already working on XML Schema / RelaxNG
+ compilers so this may not be too hard.
+ </para>