RE: draft-reschke-webdav-search-05 - a few questions on the draft

Currently we have a use case where in we need to search under different 
collections and then build a consolidated search result and present it to 
the user. We would like to avoid searching from the root with the 
possibility of having to specify infinite depth, to ensure the search does 
not take too much time. As Elias mentioned in his email, this can be 
achieved by issuing multiple requests, but as Julian mentioned this of 
course opens us up to the issue of what having to manage top (max-results), 
sorting, etc i.e. in effect the client having to build a layer on top of 
DASL.


I am quite new to DASL and WebDAV and in fact I am still finding my way so 
to speak.

Given the above fact, my next question might sound incredibly stupid... 
but...

if each collection has different properties ( I am not sure if this is 
possible) and if each collection acts as a node in a tree, I am curious as 
to how searching within multiple scopes would be different from searching in 
a tree with arbitrary depth?

Is it the case that all collection nodes are consistent (i.e. have the same 
properties) and thus searching within multiple scopes is a different beast?


thanks,
prakash


>From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
>To: "Wallmer, Martin" <Martin.Wallmer@softwareag.com>,"'yamuna prakash'" 
><yamunap@hotmail.com>, <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
>CC: <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
>Subject: RE: draft-reschke-webdav-search-05 - a few questions on the draft
>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:28:46 +0200
>
>
>Correct.
>
>Keep in mind that allowing multiple issues may be more complex than you
>think. For instance, it's trivial to just repeat the same query for the
>different scopes, but how does this affect sorting/ranking/max-results?
>
>Julian
>
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