- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:26:46 +0100
- To: "Jim Whitehead" <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>, <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
Jim, we'd have to define what "performing the search using the language information" actually means. Fact is that XQuery/XSLT2.0 currently doesn't handle this issue as well, although that working group definitively has much more resources to come up with a solution. I think we shouldn't try to be more clever than those which are experts in the query/I18N domain. Instead, we should keeo DAV:basicsearch minimal, and ensure that the grammar is extensible enough to add these features at a later point of time (for instance, by adding a "collation" attribute). Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760 > -----Original Message----- > From: www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jim Whitehead > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:09 PM > To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org > Subject: RE: Issue JW24d (xml:lang) > > > > > I think Jim already provided a good example, but RFC2277 has another > > similar one: one might reasonably wish to do a large search for > > documents with the name of a specific tree in Norwegian. The name of > > the tree is 'ask'. It's useless to get all the English documents with > > the word 'ask' in response to that query. If there *are* body or > > properties typed as Norwegian, then our search syntax must be able to > > specify that the search engine should match these first. > > Though I'm no expert on ideographic languages, I think there > might be cases > where the meaning of a specific UNICODE character might vary depending on > the language tag. > > As for a specific proposal, here's the sketch of one: > > | server can do lang server cannot do > | specific searching lang spec. searching > -----------+---------------------------------------------- > xml:lang | perform search using either: > present | xml:lang info (a) reject request > | (b) use default search > | but inform client that > | xml:lang was ignored > | > xml:lang | perform search using perform search using > not present| server's default server's default > | search technique search technique > | (character-match, > | indep. of language) > > I don't think it makes sense to make use/non-use of language information > discoverable. > > - Jim >
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