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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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