-<!-- $Id: tools.xml,v 1.50 2006-06-13 16:01:51 adam Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: tools.xml,v 1.56 2007-02-08 09:03:31 adam Exp $ -->
<chapter id="tools"><title>Supporting Tools</title>
<para>
<literallayout>
query ::= top-set query-struct.
- top-set ::= [ '@attrset' string ]
+ top-set ::= [ '@attrset' string ]
query-struct ::= attr-spec | simple | complex | '@term' term-type query
- attr-spec ::= '@attr' [ string ] string query-struct
+ attr-spec ::= '@attr' [ string ] string query-struct
complex ::= operator query-struct query-struct.
<sect3 id="pqf-examples"><title>PQF queries</title>
- <example><title>PQF queries using simple terms</title>
+ <example id="example.pqf.simple.terms">
+ <title>PQF queries using simple terms</title>
<para>
<screen>
dylan
</screen>
</para>
</example>
- <example><title>PQF boolean operators</title>
+ <example id="pqf.example.pqf.boolean.operators">
+ <title>PQF boolean operators</title>
<para>
<screen>
@or "dylan" "zimmerman"
</screen>
</para>
</example>
- <example><title>PQF references to result sets</title>
+ <example id="example.pqf.result.sets">
+ <title>PQF references to result sets</title>
<para>
<screen>
@set Result-1
</screen>
</para>
</example>
- <example><title>Attributes for terms</title>
+ <example id="example.pqf.attributes">
+ <title>Attributes for terms</title>
<para>
<screen>
@attr 1=4 computer
</screen>
</para>
</example>
- <example><title>PQF Proximity queries</title>
+ <example id="example.pqf.proximity">
+ <title>PQF Proximity queries</title>
<para>
<screen>
@prox 0 3 1 2 k 2 dylan zimmerman
</para></note>
</para>
</example>
- <example><title>PQF specification of search term</title>
+ <example id="example.pqf.search.term.type">
+ <title>PQF specification of search term type</title>
<para>
<screen>
@term string "a UTF-8 string, maybe?"
</screen>
</para>
</example>
- <example><title>PQF mixed queries</title>
+ <example id="example.pqf.mixed.queries">
+ <title>PQF mixed queries</title>
<para>
<screen>
@or @and bob dylan @set Result-1
license, it is included as a supplement to &yaz;.
</para>
- <sect3><title>CCL Syntax</title>
+ <sect3 id="ccl.syntax">
+ <title>CCL Syntax</title>
<para>
The CCL parser obeys the following grammar for the FIND argument.
The syntax is annotated by in the lines prefixed by
- <literal>‐‐</literal>.
+ <literal>--</literal>.
</para>
<screen>
</screen>
- <example><title>CCL queries</title>
+ <example id="example.ccl.queries">
+ <title>CCL queries</title>
<para>
The following queries are all valid:
</para>
</example>
</sect3>
- <sect3><title>CCL Qualifiers</title>
+ <sect3 id="ccl.qualifiers">
+ <title>CCL Qualifiers</title>
<para>
Qualifiers are used to direct the search to a particular searchable
lines in a CCL profile: qualifier specification,
qualifier alias, comments and directives.
</para>
- <sect4><title id="qualifier-specification">Qualifier specification</title>
+ <sect4 id="ccl.qualifier.specification">
+ <title>Qualifier specification</title>
<para>
A qualifier specification is of the form:
</para>
or <literal>c</literal> for completeness.
The attributes for the special qualifier name <literal>term</literal>
are used when no CCL qualifier is given in a query.
- <table><title>Common Bib-1 attributes</title>
+ <table id="ccl.common.bib1.attributes">
+ <title>Common Bib-1 attributes</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colwidth="2*" colname="type"></colspec>
<colspec colwidth="9*" colname="description"></colspec>
which are used in combination with certain types.
The special combinations are:
- <table><title>Special attribute combos</title>
+ <table id="ccl.special.attribute.combos">
+ <title>Special attribute combos</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colwidth="2*" colname="name"></colspec>
<colspec colwidth="9*" colname="description"></colspec>
</tgroup>
</table>
</para>
- <example><title>CCL profile</title>
+ <example id="example.ccl.profile"><title>CCL profile</title>
<para>
Consider the following definition:
</para>
</para>
</example>
</sect4>
- <sect4><title>Qualifier alias</title>
+ <sect4 id="ccl.qualifier.alias">
+ <title>Qualifier alias</title>
<para>
A qualifier alias is of the form:
</para>
</para>
</sect4>
- <sect4><title>Comments</title>
+ <sect4 id="ccl.comments">
+ <title>Comments</title>
<para>
Lines with white space or lines that begin with
character <literal>#</literal> are treated as comments.
</para>
</sect4>
- <sect4><title>Directives</title>
+ <sect4 id="ccl.directives">
+ <title>Directives</title>
<para>
Directive specifications takes the form
</para>
<para><literal>@</literal><replaceable>directive</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable>
</para>
- <table><title>CCL directives</title>
+ <table id="ccl.directives.table">
+ <title>CCL directives</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colwidth="2*" colname="name"></colspec>
<colspec colwidth="8*" colname="description"></colspec>
</table>
</sect4>
</sect3>
- <sect3><title>CCL API</title>
+ <sect3 id="ccl.api">
+ <title>CCL API</title>
<para>
All public definitions can be found in the header file
<filename>ccl.h</filename>. A profile identifier is of type
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
- <sect2 id="tools.cql"><title>CQL</title>
+ <sect2 id="cql"><title>CQL</title>
<para>
<ulink url="&url.cql;">CQL</ulink>
- Common Query Language - was defined for the
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
- <sect3 id="tools.cql.parsing"><title>CQL parsing</title>
+ <sect3 id="cql.parsing"><title>CQL parsing</title>
<para>
A CQL parser is represented by the <literal>CQL_parser</literal>
handle. Its contents should be considered &yaz; internal (private).
</para>
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="tools.cql.tree"><title>CQL tree</title>
+ <sect3 id="cql.tree"><title>CQL tree</title>
<para>
The the query string is valid, the CQL parser
generates a tree representing the structure of the
</para>
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="tools.cql.pqf"><title>CQL to PQF conversion</title>
+ <sect3 id="cql.to.pqf"><title>CQL to PQF conversion</title>
<para>
Conversion to PQF (and Z39.50 RPN) is tricky by the fact
that the resulting RPN depends on the Z39.50 target
open <literal>FILE</literal>.
</para>
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="tools.cql.map">
+ <sect3 id="cql.to.rpn">
<title>Specification of CQL to RPN mappings</title>
<para>
The file supplied to functions
<replaceable>value</replaceable> the attribute value.
</para>
<para>
+ The character <literal>*</literal> (asterisk) has special meaning
+ when used in the RPN pattern.
+ Each occurrence of <literal>*</literal> is substituted with the
+ CQL matching name (index, relation, qualifier etc).
+ This facility can be used to copy a CQL name verbatim to the RPN result.
+ </para>
+ <para>
The following CQL patterns are recognized:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>
<literal>http://www.loc.gov/zing/cql/cql-indexes/v1.0/</literal>.
If this pattern is not defined, the mapping will fail.
</para>
+ <para>
+ The pattern,
+ <literal>index.</literal><replaceable>set</replaceable><literal>.*</literal>
+ is used when no other index pattern is matched.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term>
+ <literal>set</literal>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This specification defines a default CQL context set for index names.
+ The value on the right hand side is the URI for the set.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</para>
- <example><title>CQL to RPN mapping file</title>
+ <example id="example.cql.to.rpn.mapping">
+ <title>CQL to RPN mapping file</title>
<para>
This simple file defines two context sets, three indexes and three
relations, a position pattern and a default structure.
</para>
<programlisting><![CDATA[
- set.cql = http://www.loc.gov/zing/cql/context-sets/cql/v1.1/
- set.dc = http://www.loc.gov/zing/cql/dc-indexes/v1.0/
+ set.cql = http://www.loc.gov/zing/cql/context-sets/cql/v1.1/
+ set.dc = http://www.loc.gov/zing/cql/dc-indexes/v1.0/
index.cql.serverChoice = 1=1016
index.dc.title = 1=4
index.dc.subject = 1=21
- relation.< = 2=1
- relation.eq = 2=3
- relation.scr = 2=3
+ relation.< = 2=1
+ relation.eq = 2=3
+ relation.scr = 2=3
- position.any = 3=3 6=1
+ position.any = 3=3 6=1
- structure.* = 4=1
+ structure.* = 4=1
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>
</screen>
</para>
</example>
+ <example id="example.cql.to.rpn.string">
+ <title>CQL to RPN string attributes</title>
+ <para>
+ In this example we allow any index to be passed to RPN as
+ a use attribute.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting><![CDATA[
+ # Identifiers for prefixes used in this file. (index.*)
+ set.cql = info:srw/cql-context-set/1/cql-v1.1
+ set.rpn = http://bogus/rpn
+ set = http://bogus/rpn
+
+ # The default index when none is specified by the query
+ index.cql.serverChoice = 1=any
+
+ index.rpn.* = 1=*
+ relation.eq = 2=3
+ structure.* = 4=1
+ position.any = 3=3
+]]>
+ </programlisting>
+ <para>
+ The <literal>http://bogus/rpn</literal> context set is also the default
+ so we can make queries such as
+ <screen>
+ title = a
+ </screen>
+ which is converted to
+ <screen>
+ @attr 2=3 @attr 4=1 @attr 3=3 @attr 1=title "a"
+ </screen>
+ </para>
+ </example>
+ <example id="example.cql.to.rpn.bathprofile">
+ <title>CQL to RPN using Bath Profile</title>
+ <para>
+ The file <filename>etc/pqf.properties</filename> has mappings from
+ the Bath Profile and Dublin Core to RPN.
+ If YAZ is installed as a package it's usually located
+ in <filename>/usr/share/yaz/etc</filename> and part of the
+ development package, such as <literal>libyaz-dev</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </example>
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="tools.cql.xcql"><title>CQL to XCQL conversion</title>
+ <sect3 id="cql.xcql"><title>CQL to XCQL conversion</title>
<para>
Conversion from CQL to XCQL is trivial and does not
require a mapping to be defined.
</sect1>
- <sect1 id="tools.marc"><title>MARC</title>
+ <sect1 id="marc"><title>MARC</title>
<para>
YAZ provides a fast utility that decodes MARC records and
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>YAZ_MARC_MARXML</term>
+ <term>YAZ_MARC_MARCXML</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The resulting record is converted to MARCXML.
stores the resulting record in a WRBUF handle (WRBUF is a simple string
type).
</para>
- <example>
+ <example id="example.marc.display">
<title>Display of MARC record</title>
<para>
The followint program snippet illustrates how the MARC API may
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