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> > > The site is about GoXML.com which was the first true contextual XML > > > Search Engine on the web in 1999. > > Not to be picky, but quite a number of systems offered full structural > > indexing of SGML/XML documents, well before 1999. > I didn't know that XML was around in 1994-5. I believe that XML became a > standard around 1998 therefore the claim stands . If you're really unsure of the date, as opposed to being facetious, it's easy enough to look up in the Recommendation itself. (Oops, now I'm being facetious.) Several years before XML became a Recommendation, Dynaweb offered contextual searching of SGML on the web. XML is a subset of SGML, so any product that could perform this for SGML could theoretically do it for XML before XML was invented. I'm not absolutely sure that EBT's Dyna* family of products supported every feature of SGML declarations, which is the true test of whether an SGML document can handle XML; if they didn't, addressing this aspect of Dynaweb directly would be a better way to add weight to your claim. xml-dev is not always a friendly place for marketing bombast. That's one reason I like it! Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@ snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
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