WebMDS can be accessed using any web browser. In a default WebMDS installation, the URL http://hostname:port/webmds corresponds to the top-level WebMDS web page. This page includes a link to a WebMDS invocation that provides summary information (with links to detailed information) about a locally-running MDS Index server. It also contains a link to a page of sample web forms demonstrating other uses of WebMDS.

3. Customizing the web forms used to access WebMDS

The WebMDS servlet is located at http://your-tomcat-host:your-tomcat-port/webmds/webmds. It takes the following arguments:

Table 1. Form arguments used by WebMDS

`info`	The name of the XML source that will be used to collect the raw XML data. XML sources are defined by files in `$GLOBUS_LOCATION/lib/webmds/conf`. This argument must be specified.
`xsl`	The name of the XML source that will provide the XSL transform. XML sources are defined by files in `$GLOBUS_LOCATION/lib/webmds/conf`. If this argument is not specified, the WebMDS servlet will display raw, untransformed XML.
`xmlSource.info_name.param.source_specific_options`	Any additional options recognized by the info_name XML source (info_name must be the value of the info argument for this request). Source-specific options are discussed in the next section.
`xmlSource.xsl_name.param.source_specific_options`	Any additional options recognized by the xsl_name XML source (xsl_name must be the value of the xsl argument for this request). Source-specific options are discussed in the next section.

4. Limitations

Error conditions (such as typographical errors in resource property names) are presented as stack traces, rather than user-friendly error messages.

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