4.23.1 Issuing a Search for Item Metadata

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As illustrated by the figure in section 4.23, the client first issues a Search request (section 2.2.1.16) to the server to retrieve metadata about the item (if the URI points to an item) or the items (if the URI points to a folder). The client then does the following:

  • Indicates that the client is searching a document library store by using the search:Name element (section 2.2.3.120.2).

  • Provides the URI as the search:Value element (section 2.2.3.196) in an search:EqualTo query (section 2.2.3.62).

  • Indicates the range of results that the client wants to have returned in the response.

In this example, the client is attempting to retrieve metadata for the files in a UNC share.