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RE: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)

• To: 'Robert Koberg' <rob@k...>, 'Alan Gutierrez' <alan-xml-dev@e...>
• Subject: RE: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:14:24 -0500
• Cc: 'XML Developers List' <xml-dev@l...>

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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