On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> In particular, I can foresee servers not interpreting the "type" filter
>> appropriately, being likely to process the adjacent query then apply the
>> type filter, which would be wrong. I have a feeling most sources implement
>> the type filter as a passive "post filter" rather than an active one. I can
>> tell you right now that it is going to be really quite difficult for me to
>> implement "adjacent" correctly for the ASTD gene/transcript/exon sources,
>> and I suspect the same will be true for retrofitting lots of other sources.
>>
> This is an optional capability though right?
>
That is definitely the intent of my proposal.
Even if this eventually gets rolled into the spec., my suggestion would be
to keep it optional (negotiated via a CAPABILITY).
Thomas.
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