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

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Nov 28 02:21:05 EET 2006


Joe Shaw wrote:
>There's no question about this.  It's the indexer's responsibility to
>extract the relevant information from the file, but fundamentally what
>kind of file that is (again, think SVG vs. XSLT) is something the MIME
>code should handle.

I think we're arguing for the same thing :-)

We want the indexer to be able to read a container format and feed the 
MIME detector with each stream so that MIME types can be tagged 
correctly.

What to do with that information is a whole other story...

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