Re: Index Pattern changes

On Jan 30, 2008 10:03 PM, Vadim Gritsenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Natalia Shilenkova wrote:
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> > 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?

I do not expect changes to interfaces or file formats.

Natalia