+ <xref linkend="administration-ranking"/> .
+ The <literal>type</literal> attribute specifies how the record
+ is to be treated. The following values may be given for
+ <literal>type</literal>:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><literal>insert</literal></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The record is inserted. If the record already exists, it is
+ skipped (i.e. not replaced).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><literal>replace</literal></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The record is replaced. If the record does not already exist,
+ it is skipped (i.e. not inserted).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><literal>delete</literal></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The record is deleted. If the record does not already exist,
+ it is skipped (i.e. nothing is deleted).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><literal>update</literal></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The record is inserted or replaced depending on whether the
+ record exists or not. This is the default behavior but may
+ be effectively changed by "outside" the scope of the DOM
+ filter by zebraidx commands or extended services updates.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ Note that the value of <literal>type</literal> is only used to
+ determine the action if and only if the Zebra indexer is running
+ in "update" mode (i.e zebraidx update) or if the specialUpdate
+ action of the
+ <link linkend="administration-extended-services-z3950">Extended
+ Service Update</link> is used.
+ For this reason a specialUpdate may end up deleting records!