Re: [Exist-open] advice on good xml to query for exist

[<fre...@aj...>]

> A generic structure like this doesn't really help to write good
> queries.

I feel so, and it's not really interesting to read :o)


> I don't know how many distinct 'keys' you have,=20
 > This will also make
 > it easier to define range indexes depending on the type of the
 > element.

These keys are bibliographic properties (title, author, abstract...),=20
structure should be scalable, but type of data could be known (a subject=20
descriptor is interesting for an exact search, a description for fulltext=
)

> but I would
> at least transform the most common ones into elements, so instead of
> <field name=3D"foo">1</field> you get <foo>1</foo>.=20

We tried first this structure because it's the input and the desired=20
output, but it's a very little job to adjust output (input needs work).



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Fr=E9d=E9ric Glorieux (AJLSM, http://ajlsm.com)