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Subject: RE: [search-ws] RE: A further role for queryn: Leading and trailing booleans
> > No, the server can't figure it out if there is the potential for > > omitted parms and unintentionally provided parms (Booleans, indexes and > > relations without terms). > > > > The server gets qt2=cat qb2=and qt3=dog qb3=or > > > > How does the server know if an AND or an OR is being requested? Was > > that Boolean provided for term2 supposed to apply to the omitted term 1 > > or to the provided term 2? Was the Boolean provided with term 3 > > supposed to apply to term 2 or to the omitted term 4? > > > I don't really understand what "omitted term 1" means. Does it mean the > form has terms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, .... and the user started with term2, and > entered two terms so he ommitted term 1 (and he also omitted term 4 and term > 5 ...) or does it mean something else? No, you have it right. Suppose I had a form (actually, I do have a form: http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/lcnaf) where each term is associated with an index. The user typically only fills in a field or two from the form. The other terms will be omitted because they have no values. Ralph
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