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

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2006/12/3, Jos van den Oever <jvdoever at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.


I'm not sure I follow you. What do you mean by "use dbus for specifying the
query object" ?

Cheers,
Mikkel
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