[Yanel-dev] Search requirements

[Michael Wechner]

Bruno von Rotz wrote:
> While doing the implementation of a new website we have encountered 
> some use cases that are not optimally supported by the "on board" 
> search of Yanel.
> Here an example:
> Metadata1: Date, e.g. 2001/01/01 or 2010/06/02
> Metadata2: Countries, e.g. France, Germany, UK, Australia, Chile, 
> Switzerland, Austria
> Search example:
> Find all content that contains "Prince of Persia" and has 
> metadata1<2010/06/01 and metadata2 Switzerland, Germany or Austria.
>
> The current implementation allows either to search in the fulltext 
> with a query string or to search for one specific attribute, or to 
> scope down to a specific attribute.
> Any combination is not really supported.
>
> The ideal would be that either some type of SQL syntax 

maybe we could re-use

http://code.google.com/p/lucene-sql/

Cheers

Michi
> or XQuery syntax is supported and allows to address specific 
> attribute/metadata and fulltext.
>
> My 5 cents.
>
> Bruno
>