Re: Search Facet

[James Aylett <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:49:31AM -0400, Joe Gregorio wrote:

> Of all the facets of the AtomAPI, the search mechanism has 
> caused the most angst. Indeed there is a whole page 
> dedicated to discussing just this facet on the wiki. 
> The search mechanism has gone through many changes 
> and at this point I would like to re-introduce the 
> search mechanism from the RESTLog API and offer it
> as an alternative to the search mechanisms presented
> so far:
> 
>   http://bitworking.org/news/Atom_Archive_Format

As I understand it, this is basically satisfying the need for "give me
the last N entries", meaning they can be removed from any future work
on actually searching for entries (eg by intrinsic data such as title,
what you call 'text-search' - which is covered by the Wiki page you
mention [1]). Presumably the idea is that this would be enough for the
editing API to work with, allowing that to settle down quickly (once
its prereqs are settled).

I don't have the experience of building editors for this sort of thing
to know for sure, but I am concerned that I might want to edit a
particular entry, for which I have a rendered URL (eg an HTML
representation), and my editor ends up having to trawl through the
entire archive looking for it (say, an editor built into a Mozilla
browser at a cybercafe). Or are you advocating having HTML <link/>
references to the URI used for AtomAPI edit operations as well as
this?

[1] http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/RestEchoSearchApi

James

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