Re: Index Pattern changes

On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Natalia Shilenkova wrote:

> I plan to make some changes to Index Pattern that would allow to
> specify path to an element/attribute. The path could be relative or
> absolute. So, instead of pattern "elem@id" one could be using pattern
> "/doc/node1/node2/elem@id". This would help to build indexes that only
> include relevant information, reducing index size.
>
> Also, it could be helpful in case when content of elem@id has
> different type depending on its location in a document, for example,
> some of them contain strings, while others contain integer. Right now
> this situation is not handled so well, and may result in nodes of a
> "wrong" type disappearing from result set.
>
> Any thoughts?

That sounds great! I suspect implementation of such index would  
require changes to indexing interfaces, isn't it?

Vadim