Re: [search-ws] result analysis

["Dr R. Sanderson" <azaroth@liverpool.ac.uk>]

I don't think that facets are the same sort of thing as the other two.

They're generated as a matter of course while performing a query. Facets 
are effectively further queries that target different access points.

Rob


On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:

> Please comment on my suggestion that SRU 2.0 include a response element <resultAnalysis>.  I don't think anyone on the TC has offered an opinion.
>
> The idea is to bundle the various pieces of information within the response that are essentially result analysis into a single complex element. And that element could be supplied by various schemas.
>
> The pieces would include:
>
> - faceted results
> - subquery analysis
> - result precision
> - echoed query  (The echoed query could be part of the subquery analysis and could be eliminated as a separate parameter.)
>
> --Ray