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Re: Antwort: Re: DAVENPORT: Three more Questions.



> And then they ask me for pointers to examples of search engines that
> could index the raw DocBook SGML, letting you ask exactly that sort

I saw on "SGML and XML News" <URL:http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html>
that SCOOBS just relicensed to the GPL: <URL:http://www.scoobs.com/about.html>

> SCOOBS (Search and Classification Of Object Based information Sources)
> is a 'Context Based Search Engine' that "allows for the context to be
> derived from an XML document. This means that we can now search for
> documents that exhibit a certain context. We can search for 'plum
> pudding', that has a context only of a 'recipe', and SCOOBS will
> return 'plum pudding recipes', and not 'plum pudding' from restaurant
> menus and the like. SCOOBS also returns XPointers to exact locations
> in XML documents, and allows users to locate sub-documents of
> documents. Now you can travel from a search result straight to the
> position in a document where that search information is
> located. SCOOBS offers a very unique merged XML output, where you can
> request that it gathers all the XML documents of your results and
> merge them together, removing all the irrelevant information in the
> original document."

That's XML, not SGML, but that's a *good* thing :-) 

			_Mark_ <eichin@thok.org>
			The Herd Of Kittens


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