Re: [search-ws] Re: sru/cql sort

[Rob Sanderson <azaroth@liverpool.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 09:09 -0400, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
wrote:
> You want to sort by date, but records are not searchable by date.

You could specify that in the ZeeRex/service description.

eg:

<index sort="true" search="false" scan="false">
  <map><name set="dc">date</name></map>
</index>

R


> --Ray
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Sanderson" <azaroth@liverpool.ac.uk>
> Cc: <search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [search-ws] Re: sru/cql sort
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > I don't understand the use case for a sort key as a retrieval field?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:49 -0400, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
> > wrote:
> > > From: "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
> > > > Well, my original complaint about incorporating sort into the query
> > > > grammar was about the additional complexity it added to the query.
> > >
> > > As I recall, your compaint was that having sort as part of the query
> makes
> > > it difficult to use a retrieval field (as opposed to an index)  as a
> sort
> > > key.  A complaint that I find rather compelling.  I'm leaning towards
> Rob's
> > > suggestion, be able to express sort both inside and outside the query.
> > >
> > > --Ray
> >
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