On 10/24/06 7:22 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ...I imagine this would just be for explicitly passed parameters?... > > I think so, the defaults would be re-applied anyway, if the client > makes another request with the same parameters. > > -Bertrand
The defaults can change, especially if the client saves results. If possible, you want to return a full context for the results. Ultraseek has had XML results for several years and a full query context would have been useful in several situations. The Ultraseek result format targeted a different problem, returning enough info to calculate a global IDF across multiple collections and re-score the combined results. http://search.ultraseek.com/saquery.xml?qt=saquery.xml&col=usdc&col=docs The Java client library for Ultraseek (XPA) does keep a local results cache and uses the query plus the query context as a key. wunder -- Walter Underwood Search Guru, Netflix Former Ultraseek Architect
