simple search api (was Re: mimetype standardisation by testsets)

[Jos van den Oever]

2006/12/3, Joe Shaw <joeshaw at novell.com>:
> Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > Just a quick idea,
> >
> > How about using JSON (www.json.org <http://www.json.org>) 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.