How about a client API, preferable in Python? #259
Description
To flexibly make use of the data curated on HXWD it would be nice to have a client, since there is currently no good way to acquire the data otherwise (except cloning the XML).
Ideally, this client should provide something like this:
- get an overview of the types of data available
- allow for selective downloading of these data, in e.g. CSV and JSON format
- allow for downloading (and maybe even uploading? ) of text files
- performing a search
- for more complicated requests, allow for sending a XQuery to the server and send back the results
This is just to get started... Please feel free to comment and add further requests.