- From: Jim Davis <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:15:40 PDT
- To: "Dale Lowry" <dlowry.ORM2-1.OREM2@gw.novell.com>, <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
At 09:37 AM 7/27/98 PDT, Dale Lowry wrote: >... For some search engines this full set of operators is valid in a single query against all properties of the object including the document content. We need to be careful to not think in terms of document properties being a separate animal from the document content. I agree completely. >... do the from and select clauses really belong under the simplesearch element? It seems that the from and select elements exist independent of whether the query is simple or full text. All future search grammars are perfectly free to use any of the XML elements defined for simplesearch. In fact I hope they do. So one might have a very different means of specifying the query condition (e.g. taking images as input, or taking Java programs as input) but still use the same dav:select clause syntax. This seems particularly likely, given that the underlying property model is unlikely to change. On the other hand, I expect the dav:from clause to either grow (to support multiple scopes) or be replaced.
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