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Re: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)

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• Subject: Re: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)
• From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:11:03 -0400
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This is getting off-topic from what I originally hoped for :)

I was trying to start a conversation about using an XML indexing system 
in a particular problem domain - not something as grand as what you and 
Alan are are talking about.

To me using something like Lucene provides for a much faster and much 
less memory consuming process to search large collections of XML 
documents or relational databases (whether they are story XML or not).

best,
-Rob



Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> IF it is really a full-text indexing system,
> it scans and infers topics the same way a human 
> scans and tags.   It would require a rule base 
> perhaps similar to a Schematron assertion engine. 
> Past attempts made several passes over content 
> to create a series of tagged documents that are 
> successively refined.  However, as in memory-based 
> patterning systems, the more abstract the links, 
> the more opinionated the system.  Such systems 
> can become very superstitious in exactly the same 
> way people do.  How was it phrased: "A schema is 
> an opinion about a document..."
> 
> http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Memory-predicti
> on+framework&gwp=11&curtab=2222_1&linktext=memory-prediction%20framework
> 
> len
> 
> From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@k...]
> 
> 
>>    Which is why I'd propose defining a full-text schema language,
>>    so XML content can be described to a full-text search engine.
> 
> 
> 
> It does sound very interesting. How would it work? What would it look 
> like? I have tried doing this with XML Schema but gave up. I had tried 
> to use annotations to give weight to different things, then I tried to 
> make a type system. For me, it was just easier to write java to handle 
> it. Now I write org.xml.sax.ext.DefaultHandler2's that suit my needs. I 
> know, not very scalable or user friendly.
>

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