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> > Hi, all > > There is a modest effort being assembled to look at this prototypical > problem: > > PROBLEM - multitudes of XML documents. The collection is not necessarily > static, but if dynamic only incrementally so. The business case that would > apply is that it makes sense to markup the original documents using XML; > it also makes sense to search a file which is a description of the > document collection rather than the whole document collection. The > derivative file is the "index" - we are not assuming that it itself need > be XML. Am I missing something. What is the difference between your "vision" and that of, for examples, GILS--- which assign a metalevel document, so-called information locator, to a resource? See http://www.gils.net/locator.html > > I am choosing my language carefully as there seems to be an equal mixture > of enthusiasm and coolness displayed towards an XML document collection > indexing scheme. The fact of the matter is that so far we have identified In the ASF for GILS (which also defined a distributed gathering concept) see http://asf.gils.net/framework.html > a number of problems which are amenable to assisted search. We are not > particularly concerned, at this point, in breaking any new ground in XML - > rather, this is a project designed to address a subset of XML "usage" > problems. Or are you thinking (trying to understand the problem) of something like a new take on DC so gathers can create their own synthetic locator records? Or naming conventions? See http://www.gils.net/naming.html > > Although I have announced this project on the perl-xml list, and it will > concentrate on Perl, with and without XS, there is no reason that Java > and/or C/C++ viewpoints are not welcome. We are primarily interested in > exploring issues pertaining to the construction of a file that describes a > collection of XML documents in a succinct fashion, most likely with a > moderate to high degree of application specificity - i.e. there may not be > a lot of defaults that make sense. Keeping to GILS: http://asf.gils.net/semantic-map.html (following an ISO 11179 Metamodel) to connect crawlers with compliant search engines..... > > We also wish to supply a useful API that search engine writers can use. So is the project about designing a common development API for search engines? Or a way for metasearch engines to interoperate with one-another (such as GILS/ASF)? Since I appear to be totally confused (and, as often, intrigued) a starting point might be to, if possible, clarify the objectives and goals (the problem is clear) to explore common ground. -- ______________________ <A HREF="whois://rs.internic.net/ecz">Edward C. Zimmermann</A> <A HREF="http://www.bsn.com/">Basis Systeme netzwerk/Munich</A> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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