[XESAM] Spec update proposals

[Fabrice Colin]

On 6/20/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
>  * Specify that I want to use a signal SearchDone when the index has
> been searched
>
I am not sure I understand. If the search is live, how can it ever be "done" ?
People may think that once this signal is received, they won't receive any
more of the Hits signals.

>  * Specify that the xml query lang parallel to the user search langs
> 'w' modifier is an (extended/optional) attribute 'wordBreak' on the
> string element.
>
Fair enough.

> * Specify that I vote for the <fullTextFields/> element in regExp and
> proximity selectors to specify searches in the fullText scope. Other
> selectors can't use this "special field" since it doesn't make sense
> elsewhere.
>
I like alternative 4.1 better. In the user language, a statement without
a field selection means all fields, so it seems natural to have the same
in the query language.

>  * Add a new point "RegExp Not Well Defined", you better go read it!
>
Matching on the whole field seems more intuitive to me, but I have had
bad intuitions in the past ;-)

Fabrice