Hi Nathan,

The demo at http://kubrick.no-ip.info/opac/opac.php is searching against
an III target, using the 'opac' record syntax to pull back item-level
holdings info. I'd be happy to share the code -- in fact, I plan to
package it up when I get a chance and post it on my site. The only
outstanding problem is handling diacritics properly but it works otherwise.

Mark

Nathan Mealey wrote:
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> What I'm wondering is whether Z39.50 would allow me to query our III
> database and receive an item's status information. And if yes, then what the
> technologies and/or steps involved would be (broadly speaking). Our III
> database definitely accepts Z39.50 queries, but I've haven't made use of
> this in an external application before.
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> The application that I'm developing uses Rails & MySQL running on a Windows
> 2003 Server.
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> Does anyone have any ideas about this?
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