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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi Peter,
>> 2. Entity details. If you click on this you will just see a popup with
>> nothing useful inside, but this is where I intended to put nicely
>> formatted information about this entity, therefore not just display
>> names, but also description, contact information, requested attributes
>> list, logo (however this is more complex then would appear at a first
>> glance), etc. Tom Scavo thinks that this is overkill since people can
>> read XML which, after all contains the full information and not just
>> selected by us (this is why I intend to keep the full XML anyway). I
>> would like to hear it people think about such functionality. If it is a
>> general feeling that it is of no use then there is no point in
>> implementing it.
> Not sure what I'd like to consult that page for. (Unless REFEDS MET
> never returns, that is.)
> Furthermore I have the same issues with showing the XML I raised at
> the beginning of this thread: Displaying unsigned XML for easy
> copy&paste usage seems to encourage the wrong behaviour.
> Noone should be fetching XML from there, IMO, so why display it?
I would think that if we want en entity listing at all then we also need
a detailed view, the only question being should it be XML, friendly
listing or both.

Tomasz

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