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  *      Authors: Chad Berkley
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      <td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Paged Query Returns</p></td>
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  <p>Metacat allows results sets to be broken up into "pages" to aid in the loading
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  of large result sets and to make the result sets more readable to users.  This is
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  facilitated by the addition of two variables to the parameter list.  Pagesize
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  indicates how many results should be returned for a given page.  Pagestart
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  indicates which page you are currently viewing.  These parameters can be
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  passed to Metacat when a query is submited.  </p>
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  <p>When a paged query is performed, the resultset of that query contains
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  four extra fields.  Pagestart and pagesize are contained in the xml resultset
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  along with nextpage and previouspage.  This allows the xslt tranformation to
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  include navigational links in the rendered resultset.  Here's an example 
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  xml resultset.</p>
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  <pre>
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    &lt;resultset&gt;
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      &lt;pagestart&gt;1&lt;/pagestart&gt;
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      &lt;pagesize&gt;10&lt;/pagesize&gt;
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      &lt;nextpage&gt;2&lt;/nextpage&gt;
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      &lt;previouspage&gt;0&lt;/previouspage&gt;
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      &lt;query&gt;
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      ...
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      &lt;/query&gt;
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      &lt;document&gt;...&lt;/document&gt;
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      &lt;document&gt;...&lt;/document&gt;
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    &lt;/resultset&gt;
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  <p>In the case of the resultset, pagestart will always indicate the page you
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  are currently viewing.</p>
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  <p>Here's an example of the rendered result.</p>
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  <img src="images/pagedquery.jpg"/>
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  <p>The links to the previous and next pages look like this.</p>
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   &lt;a href="metacat?action=query&amp;operator=INTERSECT&amp;enableediting=false&amp;anyfield=actor&amp;qformat=kepler&amp;pagestart=0&amp;pagesize=10"&gt;Previous Page&lt;/a&gt;
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   &lt;a href="metacat?action=query&amp;operator=INTERSECT&amp;enableediting=false&amp;anyfield=actor&amp;qformat=kepler&amp;pagestart=2&amp;pagesize=10"&gt;Next Page&lt;/a&gt;
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  <p>The important bits of these links are the incremented pagestart parameters.  
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  The rendered page is on page 1 so the previous page is 0 and the next
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  page is 2.  By sequencing through the pages, the user can see the
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  entire resultset.  </p>
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  <p>The Kepler skin in lib/style/skins/kepler is a good example of how to
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  render the resultset with paged query returns.  The XSLT uses the four extra 
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  fields in the resultset to render the next and previous links.  This could
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  also be used within a non-web application.
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