[XESAM] changes in the Xesam XML Query Languae

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2007/5/21, Fabrice Colin <fabrice.colin at gmail.com>:
>
> On 5/21/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 4) There is no way to do the 'w' switch from user search language in xml
> > query language. I propose to do this via a <string> attribute.
> >
> To be honest, I am not convinced this and the 'o' switch are actually
> useful. If anything I would prefer they are removed from the spec :-)


Well, all phrase modifiers are optional, so it wont matter much if you
ignore it. OTH if this is utterly useless then there is no reason to have it
in the spec. I think that the reason for including it was something like
"some indexers support this and they should be able to expose their full
feature set".


Same for the query language's InSet selector, since it can be
> expressed with several Equals in a Or block.


Yes, but it can greatly simplify some queries. I think we can remove many
selectors if we remove "syntactic sugar"...

Cheers,
Mikkel
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