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[Couchdb Wiki] Update of "HttpViewApi" by JanLehnardt

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  == Creating Views ==
  
- To create a permanent view, the functions must first be saved into special ''design documents''. The IDs of design documents must begin with ''_design/'' and have a special views attribute that have a ''map'' member and an optional ''reduce'' member to hold the view functions. All the views in one design document are indexed whenever any of them gets queried for the first time.
+ To create a permanent view, the functions must first be saved into special ''design documents''. The IDs of design documents must begin with ''_design/'' and have a special views attribute that have a ''map'' member and an optional ''reduce'' member to hold the view functions. All the views in one design document are indexed whenever any of them gets queried.
  
  A design document that defines ''all'', ''by_lastname'', and ''total_purchases'' views might look like this: