Re: SEARCH by last path segment, Was: SEARCH for displayname

Kevin Wiggen wrote:
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> Martin,
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> I take it you do not agree that adding this to the WHERE segment is not 
> more powerful?  It will definitely clear up these types of questions.  
> If you don’t want to put it in the WHERE (where it could be AND/OR/ETC 
> with other requirements as well) why not use some sort of nested 
> structure with <d:lastsegment> and allow <d:and> <d:or> <d:not> etc to 
> be used.  Then you have ½  the power I am talking about, at least you 
> can make the search for ANY type of last segment even though you won’t 
> be able to make sure that they conform to certain other where segments 
> in the same DASL query.
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> I find it interesting we argued for multiple scopes because we want the 
> server to do the consolidation of different SCOPES, but are ignoring the 
> possibility that we might want different WHERE segments for different 
> <d:lastsegment> (%.pdf between a certain size and %.doc between a 
> certain size.) and make the server again do the consolidation.

Two thoughts here:

- The *preferred* way to search for document types is putting conditions 
on DAV:getcontenttype. Keep in mind that relying on file name extensions 
is a very bad practice (for instant consult the W3's Web Architecture 
Document).

- Moving the condition into the <where> condition makes the definition 
easy, but may make the *implementation* extremely hard. Keep in mind 
that the we distinguish between the resources (which have a set of 
queryable properties) and the URIs mapped to them (with the BIND model, 
the set of URIs is a function of the collections having bindings to 
them). A server that implements a storage system with this distinction 
will usually *first* determine the set of matching objects and only then 
  construct the set of URIs pointing to these objects.

Regards, Julian


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