User Guide

176 Getting Results with Novell Web Services
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
103-000133-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Searching XML Documents
Web Search provides complete hierarchical searching using the &filter=value
parameter. For example, you can find information in any of the TITLE tags of
an XML document. Or you can restrict Web Search to only the TITLE tag
within the DOCUMENT/SUMMARY hierarchy of an XML document.
The following table shows example uses of the &query=value parameter.
Example Values Result
search_criteria Finds search_criteria anywhere in the document.
/<Document*=search_criteria Finds search_criteria anywhere within any tag that is part of the
DOCUMENT hierarchy.
/<Document<Summary*=search_
criteria
Finds search_criteria within any tag that is part of the
DOCUMENT or SUMMARY hierarchy.
/<Document<Summary<Title=search_
criteria
Finds search_criteria only within the DOCUMENT, SUMMARY,
or TITLE tags.
/<Document*<Title=search_criteria Finds search_criteria within any TITLE tag, found at any level
within the DOCUMENT hierarchy.
/<*<Title=search_criteria Finds the search_criteria within any TITLE tag in the document.