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

[Fabrice Colin]

On 11/27/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/11/26, Jean-Francois Dockes <jean-francois.dockes at wanadoo.fr>:
> > - Should we provide one/several sample parsers to turn the query string
> >   into a simple data structure ? This might help back-end adapter writers,
> >   and also help remove any possible ambiguity from the language
> definition.
>
> There are several ways to do this. One idea could be to provide stand alone
> libs for QT and GObject... Ie. no "bindings" just pure implementations.
>
A sample parser would help greatly, but the best way to remove ambiguities is
probably to provide a BNF grammar lest parser bugs become part of the
standard :-)

Fabrice