2006/12/3, Jos van den Oever <<a href="mailto:jvdoever@gmail.com">jvdoever@gmail.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2006/12/3, Joe Shaw <<a href="mailto:joeshaw@novell.com">joeshaw@novell.com</a>>: > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > > Just a quick idea, > > > > How about using JSON (<a href="http://www.json.org"> www.json.org</a> <<a href="http://www.json.org">http://www.json.org</a>>) as to > > represent the query objects (instead of xml)? > > I'm reluctant to do this because I'm not sure how comprehensive the > stacks are for C#.  The XML stacks we have -- the built in one in Mono, > or libxml2 for C -- are very mature parts of the platforms. > > > It is light, easily readable, widespread, and there is possibility to > > write extremely fast parsers. > > Maybe, but we should be focusing our efforts on building the search > software, not on hot-serialization-technology-of-the-day parsers. I agree. Lets just say that the simple interface cannot have nested queries, in other works, no brackets. Then it is possible to use dbus for specifying the query object.</blockquote><div> I'm not sure I follow you. What do you mean by "use dbus for specifying the query object" ? Cheers, Mikkel </div> </div>