Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
Steven J. DeRose wrote: <snip/> Thanks, that was the kind of info I was interested in... How do you build indexers that give weight to the things you want/need generically? > It's not extremely hard to build a completely structure-aware indexer > (though optimizing them for really huge document collections is harder). > But they're still not common, and indexers that weren't built > specifically for XML from the beginning, often have many surprises > awaiting the unwary. Do you have suggestions for XML indexers? > > Best wishes, > > Steve > > PS: The "chunking" or single-level issue was a hot topic in hypertext > and information retrieval articles in the late 80's and early 90's, and > much of what was written then is, perhaps surprisingly, still timely > today. If inclined, check out the Proceedings of the yearly ACM > "Hypertext" conferences. Also some of this was discussed during the W3C > "QL98" conference in Cambridge (that kicked off the W3C work on > querying), available at http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/. Of course the > first thing you'll want to read from there is my paper... ;) > http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/linkhier.html And as always, the > Cover Pages have a wealth of good info, for example at > http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlQuery.html > I will check these out. Thanks, -Rob
|
