ClassificationBank outputs a SOAP classificationBankObject as a serialized array. The namebank_search method is used to obtain the NameBankID for a name string. The classification_search method is used to locate taxon concepts that contain the name, or it's variants as the current name or within it's synonymy. This method returns a taxon concept identifier. Taxon objects are accessed via the classification_object SOAP. See example.

Our next version will move the output format to RDF/XML.