Date:         Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:58:46 +0000
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From:         Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Attribute lists for queries - what are people doing?
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> I almost wonder if CQL should say for 'all' and 'any' that terms are
> white space separated. If you say 'book-case' and the system indexes it
> as two words, then treat as a phase query (adjacent words). This seems
> to be what all the existing implementations do, so I wonder if the spec
> should be changed to make it compatible.

That's why we have the term format desciption relation modifiers. For
example cql.number, cql.isoDate, cql.word.

Eliot might want to define geo.box which is top left, bottom right points,
and then use 'any' to match against multiple boxes.

Rob

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