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On 8/8/07, Ermias Abebe <ermiasabe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would appreciate if someone tells me if it is possible to provide an XML
> formatted query to Kinosearch. Is there an existing implementation for this?
> If I have to implemnet it myself, I would also be happy to get some pointers
> (like where to start, etc).

There is no built in way of doing this. It is possible that someone
might have a private version to offer, but it shouldn't be too hard to
make it work on your own. The primary code you should start looking
at would be in "perl/lib/KinoSearch/QueryParser.pm".

Depending on your exact needs, though, I would seriously consider just
writing a layer to translate the XML query into the existing query
syntax. If the queries you are considering can be expressed as a
parenthesized boolean expression, this would certainly be the simplest
solution, and likely easiest to maintain.

Nathan Kurz
nate@verse.com

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I will first go through the code as suggested
and come back if I have a problem.

Regards

On 8/9/07, Nathan Kurz <nate@verse.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/8/07, Ermias Abebe <ermiasabe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would appreciate if someone tells me if it is possible to provide an
> XML
> > formatted query to Kinosearch. Is there an existing implementation for
> this?
> > If I have to implemnet it myself, I would also be happy to get some
> pointers
> > (like where to start, etc).
>
> There is no built in way of doing this. It is possible that someone
> might have a private version to offer, but it shouldn't be too hard to
> make it work on your own. The primary code you should start looking
> at would be in "perl/lib/KinoSearch/QueryParser.pm".
>
> Depending on your exact needs, though, I would seriously consider just
> writing a layer to translate the XML query into the existing query
> syntax. If the queries you are considering can be expressed as a
> parenthesized boolean expression, this would certainly be the simplest
> solution, and likely easiest to maintain.
>
> Nathan Kurz
> nate@verse.com
>
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