Word indexes are indexes that support implicit proximity between a provided list of words.  String indexes are indexes that require exact matches on the entire content of the supplied search term.
 
Bath uses structure 2 because they aren't requiring proximity searching from their servers and plan on sending in single term searches.  If a Bath client sends in a single term search to a Word index, they still won't get any proximity searching.
 
Give me an AdjacencyWordList in Bib-1 and I'll use it.  I've only been asking for it for 10 years.  No, I don't think we should use the one from the Utility attribute set.  In the meantime, many servers do proximity searching on WordList.
 
Ralph
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Denenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:47 AM
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Subject: Re: DC Index definitions

First, what do we mean by a word index?  In Bath we mean it for searching a single word (Bath uses structure 2). Don't we mean the same for DC?  Let's be sure we agree on this one way or the other.

Second, the alternative mappings proposed are (1) old architecture (e.g. bib-1) and (2) new architecture (xd, utility, bib-2). Structure value 2 is proposed only for the old.  AdjacenyWordList is in the Utility set (new architecture). You can argue that new-architecture-friendly sets can be used with old architecture, if not vice versa, but do we want to do that?
 
Finally   --- WordList????  Haven't we depricated that completely out of existence?????

--Ray

"LeVan,Ralph" wrote:

 I'm loading this stuff into a file that I can process and I noticed that the word indexes have a Structure attribute of Word (2).  Shouldn't that be out new AdjacencyWordList, or at least just plain WordList(6)?Thanks!Ralph