Date:         Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:02:48 GMT
Reply-To:     "Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative" <[log in to unmask]>
Sender:       "Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative" <[log in to unmask]>
From:         Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: CQL:  within
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> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:46:39 -0500
> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > It's a semantic error.  "within" is only defined
> > over ordered indexes such as numeric quantities
> > or dates.
>
> What's not ordered about keyword indexes?  That's why scan works.
> And I hate to tell you this, but when you do a range search on my
> server, it is a lexical, not numeric range.  In my engine, 2 is
> greater than 10.

So

        foo.numberOfPages > 10

finds books with 2 pages?

Sorry, that's just plain broken.

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