On Sunday 04 December 2005 15:26, Erik Hatcher wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2005, at 6:52 AM, Paul Elschot wrote:
> > I tried rewroting the XML query in exactly this way, with a
> > few property=.. constructs:
> >
> > boostingQuery(
> > matchQuery=moreLikeThis(
> > percentTermsToMatch="0.25",
> > docId="44",
> > compareField("contents"),
> > compareField("title")),
> > downGradeQuery=simpleQuery("contents")
> > ....
> > etc.
> >
> > But then I concluded that a GUI would be better for human input.
> > Nonetheless, this syntax is simpler than XML, so it might
> > be more acceptable than XML for human input.
>
> I cannot at all fathom a use case where anything like this would be
> human enterable. I realize, Paul, that you're after a human-
> enterable syntax that can create sophisticated queries, but XML
> certainly is not appropriate, or even a short-cut of XML (see YAML -
> http://www.yaml.org/). It's a shame there isn't (that I can find) a
> decent YAML parser in Java.
Are there XML editors that can limit their output to a given stylesheet?
In that case one only needs to predefine a style sheet for queries.
> Almost all users want to enter "words separated by spaces", and very
> little else. QueryParser succeeds fine for this purpose.
Those are not the users that I'm thinking of.
> I think we should focus on the machine-to-machine use case of
> communicating a Query in this discussion.
That's ok, but when a few simple constraints are enough to
make it useful for humans that need the extra query power
enough to be willing to enter more syntax, then why not?
> > The problem is that query language operators form queries and have
> > properties and subqueries with possibly different roles.
> > The subqueries cause the need for nesting and the properties and roles
> > cause the need for the property=... syntax.
>
> > I don't know XML that well. Does it have a facility to allow
> > different roles
> > for nested constructs?
>
> I'm not following what you mean by different roles. Could you
> provide an example.
For example the clauses in a boolean query can have these roles:
required, optional, and excluded.
Thinking about it, this would probably map to sth like:
<BooleanQuery>
<BooleanClause role="required">
<SomeSubQuery/>
</BooleanClause>
<!-- more clauses -->
</BooleanQuery>
Is it possible in XML to predefine rc so that <rc>...</rc> means:
<BooleanClause role="required">...</BooleanClause> ?
Regards,
Paul Elschot
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