Re: Feature Request : Separate [search] and [founditems]

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 42903
interpreted = N
texte = charles kline wrote: > What I would LOVE to see is this: > > [search name=mySearch&db=myData.db&eqSKUdatarq=1234] > > Here are the results: > [founditems search=mySearch] > [sku]: [product] > [/founditems] > > So what is the difference? Well... For one, search does not have a closing > tag and is NAMED. Founditems does not need to be nested. What this allows > for is a more object based development style that allows me to separate my > search objects from my display objects. > This has been requested in the past. If you are doing more than a single [search] on a page, you may be wasting your time and should be using [lookup] more often. However, I can see the option as being useful. It would require some significant change to the parser to permit both [search] context (with closing tag) and command (without).John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Feature Request : Separate [search] and [founditems] (John Peacock 2002)
  2. Feature Request : Separate [search] and [founditems] (charles kline 2002)
charles kline wrote: > What I would LOVE to see is this: > > [search name=mySearch&db=myData.db&eqSKUdatarq=1234] > > Here are the results: > [founditems search=mySearch] > [sku]: [product] > [/founditems] > > So what is the difference? Well... For one, search does not have a closing > tag and is NAMED. Founditems does not need to be nested. What this allows > for is a more object based development style that allows me to separate my > search objects from my display objects. > This has been requested in the past. If you are doing more than a single [search] on a page, you may be wasting your time and should be using [lookup] more often. However, I can see the option as being useful. It would require some significant change to the parser to permit both [search] context (with closing tag) and command (without).John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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