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RE: Software for indexing & querying XML

• From: "greg.coulombe" <greg.coulombe@i...>
• To: "'Laurent Bossavit'" <laurent@m...>, xml-dev@x...
• Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:37:27 -0400

Laurent,
	I would suggest sgrep
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html) which is a generic
structured querying tool. It has its own query language and can be used with
XML, SGML and any other structured document. The source is open and fairly
easy to modify.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Bossavit [mailto:laurent@m...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 8:46 AM
> To: xml-dev@x...
> Subject: Software for indexing & querying XML
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to solicit pointers from XML-dev members to any software 
> packages (free, open, commercial; for Unix, Windows, or other) with 
> the following base capabilities :
> * multi-user server software
> * index entire collections of XML documents
> * perform "complex" queries over the indexed collection (where 
> "complex" implies a query language such as XQL or a reasonable 
> facsimile thereof)
> 
> Please note that I'm *not* including in the set outlined above 
> software such as eXcelon or Oracle 8i, which can perform XQL or 
> structured searches on *individual* documents. (eXcelon does "cross-
> document searches" but this relies on maintaining so-called "binder 
> documents" - this is not a viable option for the particular project 
> I'm evaluating).
> 
> I'm currently aware of the following packages; please help me 
> complete this list if you know of any other that satisfies the above 
> requirements.
> 
> XML Query Engine (http://www.fatdog.com)
> Recently announced here, in-memory indexes with XQL queries, Java, 
> commercial closed-source.
> 
> Xdex (http://www.xmlindex.com)
> Persistent indexes, XQL and full-text queries, Windows NT, commercial 
> closed-source.
> 
> TEXTMLServer (http://www.ixiasoft.com)
> Persistent indexes, enhanced full-text queries, Windows NT, 
> commercial closed-source.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
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> >>            ICQ#39281367            <<
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