DAV Searching

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DAV Searching Locating

• Saveen Reddy
• Dec 8, 1997

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Things to Think About

• Efficient Searching
• Properties Content
• Data Model for Resources
• Query Language(s)
• Results Language(s)
• Typing
• Simple vs. Complex Properties

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Relationship to DAV

• No changes to DAV protocol
• orthogonal extension new Method some XML
  definitions

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General Requirements

• Found in draft-reddy-dasl-requirements-00.txt
• The basic problem No efficient way to do this
• Terms Search Criteria, Result Set, Result Record
  , Search, Scope

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Criteria

• Boolean Expressions AND, OR, NOT
• Relative Comparisons
• Simple Searches on Content (Exact, substring,
  regex matching)
• Variants
• NEAR operator

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Results

• Result Record Definition
• Standardized Results Format
• Result Record Definition
• Standardized Results Format
• Paged Search Results

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Search Qualifiers

• Search Scope
• Search Depth
• Search References

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Search Query Syntax

• Simple Query Syntax
• Extensible Query Syntax
• Query Syntax Discovery

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Miscellaneous

• Access Control
• Internationalization

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DAV Searching Locating

• DASL dazzle
• URL http//www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/dasl
• subcribe to www-webdav-dasl-request _at_w3.org