[Xapian-discuss] Requesting second page using xml

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:05:18PM +0200, Floris Bos wrote:
> I hope you don't mind but I've got another question. I'm using PHP to call 
> omega to generate XML. When I do this I get the first page of results with 
> 10 results. Of course I want the visitor to be able to view all the search 
> results. Therefore I'd like to know if it is possible to directly request 
> the second page of results from Omega. I don't see any possibilities for 
> this when I look at the cgi parameters but is there some other solution to 
> this?

Use the CGI parameter TOPDOC.  Pass TOPDOC=10 to see the second page of
hits, etc.

Or you can make use of the CGI parameters < and > (value unimportant)
for next and previous page (relative to TOPDOC), or pass #=2 for page 2.

See the section "Display parameters and navigation" here:

http://svn.xapian.org/*checkout*/trunk/xapian-applications/omega/docs/cgiparams.txt

Cheers,
    Olly