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<chapter id="introduction"><title>Introduction</title>
<para>
- The <ulink url="http://www.indexdata.dk/yazproxy/">YAZ Proxy</ulink> is
+ The <ulink url="&url.yazproxy;">YAZ Proxy</ulink> is
highly configurable and can be used in a number of different
applications, ranging from debugging Z39.50-based applications
and protecting overworked servers, to improving the performance of
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<para>
- <ulink url="http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/">SRW/SRU</ulink>
+ <ulink url="&url.sru;">SRU GET/POST/SOAP</ulink>
server function, to allow any
- <ulink url="http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/">Z39.50</ulink>
- server to also support the SRW/SRU protocols.
+ <ulink url="&url.z39.50;">Z39.50</ulink>
+ server to also support the SRU protocols.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <ulink url="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</ulink> support --
+ <ulink url="&url.xml;">XML</ulink> support --
MARC records can be converted to
- <ulink url="http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/">MARCXML</ulink>, and
- <ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt">XSLT</ulink>-transformations
+ <ulink url="&url.marcxml;">MARCXML</ulink>, and
+ <ulink url="&url.xslt;">XSLT</ulink>-transformations
allow the proxy to support arbitrary retrieval schemas in XML
</para>
</listitem>