--- texttool-architecture/soft-cgi.tex	2004/01/06 21:34:05	1.4
+++ texttool-architecture/soft-cgi.tex	2004/01/06 22:46:37	1.5
@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@
 \label{sec:rec.cgi}
 
 \paragraph
-On the ECHO server, new texts are registered by means of reg.cgi (
-archimedes/web/cgi-bin/toc/admin/reg.cgi ). reg.cgi retrieves a
-metadata file from the entered uri (currently only local paths are
-supported ) and constructs from this file a toc.cgi object file (see
-below) , which it writes to toc.cgi's data section. [corpus???]
+On the ECHO server, hte registration of new texts is implemented by
+means of a cgi script, reg.cgi
+(archimedes/web/cgi-bin/toc/admin/reg.cgi ). reg.cgi retrieves a
+metadata file  in MPIWG archive metadata format from the entered uri
+(currently only local paths are supported ) and constructs from this
+file a toc.cgi object file (see below) , which it writes to toc.cgi's
+data section. [corpus???] It should be stressed that this is a
+registration procedure developed for a particular implementation of
+toc.cgi and not a part of the core application. 
 
 \paragraph
 reg.cgi takes two parameters, path and show.  Path should give the
@@ -15,6 +19,28 @@ registered. If ``show'' is set to 1, reg
 inspection the toc.cgi object file that it has built out of the
 submitted metadata file. 
 
+\paragraph{input metadata file}
+
+The input metadata file must have the following form
+
+\paragraph
+
+<resource>
+    ...
+    <meta>
+      <meta>
+                <bib type=''Book''>
+
+<title>Mainzer Untergerichtsordnung (von 1534)</title>
+<author>anon</author>
+<year>1580</year>
+        <texttool><display>yes</display>
+	<image>pageimgtif</image>
+	<text>/mpiwg/online/experimental/echo_DRQEdit_test/anon_Mainz_1580/fulltextDW/mainzugo02_utf8.xml</text>
+	<pagebreak>pb</pagebreak><presentation>01-presentation/info.xml</presentation></texttool></meta>
+
+    </meta>
+
 
 \subsubsection{toc.cgi (display text)}
 \label{sec:toc.cgi}