The browse element has no parent element, and contains the following child elements:

The response to a browse request is a browseResults element.

Browsing is a process of traversing the document sets of the index. Each document set is a like a folder or directory, with a single parent and zero or more children. Within each set, index items can be attached. An item can be in multiple document sets.

The browse request consists of the item set to use as a starting point for browsing, plus parameters to control its behavior. For example, the request can browse the next three levels beneath the initial item set with one request, exclude sets based on their size, and control whether index items are returned and in what order. Browsing can also use the document constraint mechanism described in the Constraining Queries section to filter index items. The browse algorithm begins at the starting item set, and recursively descends to its children and their children.

 
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