[Ietf-not43] RE: chris.ambler@enom.com - Email found in subject - Re: [Ietf-no t43] Using <domain> element for WHOIS implementation

[Andrew Newton]

Chris Ambler wrote:

> So I can return a <domain> element and set the <domainName> element to some
> known invalid value, such as "eW-err::[error code]/[error description]" or
> some such, and leave the rest nil. But I was hoping that there might be some
> way to return an error in the <domain> tag for those programs that return
> strongly-typed elements.

That would work, but I guess it's not pretty.

You could return an iris-core <response> element.  That would give you 
all the error codes and the normalization and data separation.  If you 
wanted to narrow it down a little further, you could return an element 
of the type "resultSetType" (e.g. <resultSet>) from iris-core.

-andy