Robert Sanderson wrote:

>>>then realised my model was not quite right for generating XCQL. I have been
>>>resolving prefixes while parsing the CQL. To generate XCQL it seems
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>>parse tree you can of course generate XCQL, but the prefixes within XCQL
>>would be different and machine generated (since the original prefixes
>>names are gone).
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>I don't understand why this follows (as my parser doesn't do that :) )
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Your parser keeps the prefixes yes. A parser which resolves prefixes to
URI indexes, etc will _not_ keep the prefixes used. It's redundant
information and it therefore should be thrown away.

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>class Prefixed:
>   prefix = "dc"
>   prefixURI = "http://.../"
>   value = "title"
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>   def __str__(self):
>     return "%s.%s" % (self.prefix, self.value)
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>(Obviously simplified)
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>Then Prefixed is the parent class for index, relation,
>relationModifierName and booleanModifierName ... anything that can have a
>prefix.
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>Then as you go through you can step up looking for prefixes and put the
>URI into prefixURI, keeping the user's name in prefix.
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>>We don't use XCQL much. If anything, it's good as a debugging tool.
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>Yes.
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>>>An alternative way (not necessarily better) of doing things is to not
>>>include prefixes, but rather have the prefixes all expanded. That is, in the
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>>I share you view on this.
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>The parser may not know how to expand the prefix because it's relying on
>the server's defaults from the Explain document.
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>I don't see a need to change the XCQL, especially as it's not often used.
>(apart from to add an element for modifier comparison)  It's not broke,
>no need to fix it to something which is just different.
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I agree, even though (as you know) I'm not keen on XCQL WRT prefixes.
But since it's not used a lot, I don't care much.

-- Adam

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