consult the search (XML) API in question. LAPI,CWS,OSCRIPT,REST all of them call the search API under the covers
each programming language will have its own parsing mechanism to interpret the results
Search XML works in any old livelink here you can see a FAQ written in very long back
In your LAPI code you need not even run LAPI Search you can just use the xml returned dataids and do what ever you need with it.
LAPI has been deprecated for about 10 years and all programmers have left the arena so do not expect any LAPI help from OT forums or here
other than obvious pointers.Perhaps LL programmers who knew LAPI can be employed for a price but pro bono you might not get much.
LL971 should work fine with CWS.
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