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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Avi Rappoport wrote: > I have a consulting client who is shipping around Boolean queries. > The documents are not XML, but they are using XML for data transfer > between the search form and the back-end search engine, and in the > results listings. We would like to replace their proprietary query > language (it looks like AltaVista's + and - system) with XML markup, > because it seems cleaner and could be parsed with the rest of the > document. > > I have read all 66 position papers at the QL '98 site > <http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp.html> and think that the proposed > languages, such as XQL or XML-Query, are overkill for our needs. Do > we have to go the whole query route or is there something lightweight > that might handle it for us? There's a different between using XML to ship queries around, and querying XML. The majority of the XML-oriented position papers at the Boston QL workshop were concerned with the latter, ie. finding things within a real or hypothetical XML document or document set. For these to be useful for your application, you'd need to 'pretend' that the database queried by your back-end search engine was an XML document or document collection. Which as you say might be overkill. I'm not aware of anything lightweight that'd do what's needed here. Maybe there's a document out there somewhere that describes the Altavista-esque +/- format adopted by the various engines objectively enough for it to be useful to ship queries around marked up as being of that type...? Dan xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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