Structured Querying (was: Re: [search-ws] Three things)

["Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>]

Kerry -

The proposals page currently includes the  "same container" proposal, with
the example:
"find 'A' and 'B' within the same container element  'C' "

And although this would fall far short of being described as addressing
structured querying in general, it is the only concrete example (class) that
has been offered, to my knowledge.  Do you have a real-life example that
requires more deeply structured querying?

--Ray



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Blinco" <kblinco@powerup.com.au>
To: "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
Cc: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>;
<search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [search-ws] Three things


> Ralph
>
> The problem with XPath is that it isn't an abstraction so I can't
> cross search - I can then only discover those things that have been
> indexed in a LOM data base and not those other things that might also
> described some other way
>
> K
>
> >
> > 5) Structured Querying.  We don't want to go there.  Simple container
> > searching isn't sufficient.  They're going to want to specify a
> > specific
> > instance of an element, either by offset or by a content value.
> > That's
> > what XPath is for and I'm not interested in seeing us duplicate it.
> >
> >
>
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