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Could you please recommend an Open Source project that I could use as a base and contribute to? Java preferably, something with indexing of multiple documents would be great. Full-tag, full-text would be very interesting. I may be able to have one or more people work on this if it could have basic functionality shortly. I have some of my own ideas, of course.... sdw Jonathan Robie wrote: > At 02:19 PM 3/25/99 -0500, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > >I wouldn't bet my farm on that proposal. Folk at QL'98, both database > >and IR, had serious issues with it. > > Frankly, I don't know of anything that has been proposed to the XML or web > communities that hasn't found its critics. XQL has found both avid fans and > strong critics. Since you make no specific technical claims here, it is > hard to dismiss what you say with information, but perhaps I can make some > broad statements that address what you are implying here. > > Both database and IR people made contact with me at QL'98, showing interest > and appreciation, and we have been in active and enthusiastic > correspondence ever since. > > XQL has been more widely implemented than any other XML query language (I > just posted information on six implementations today), and it is closely > related to XSL Patterns. > > The main criticism from database folks was that they wanted to see joins > and transformations in XQL. Peter Fankhauser has proposed extensions to XQL > for joins. Declarative transformations are, of course, very useful, but XSL > can also be used for transformations. One of the big reasons for leaving > joins and transformations out of the first version was to make > implementation simple - which is why there are quite a few implementations > of XQL. I suspect that there will be later versions of XQL that include at > least joins; I'm less certain about declarative transformations, since XSL > already exists and can do transformations, but I do really like declarative > transformations. > > At least one IR person criticized XQL for doing too much, eg for having the > parent/child relationship in addition to the ancestor/descendant > relationship. This does, in fact, increase the complexity of > implementation, but offers a distinction that I find important. > > The number of implementations of XQL shows that there's a fair amount of > interest in it. People who have demonstrated it at trade shows send me > email telling me how impressed people are - for instance, I have been > getting email from Software AG, which is showing XQL at CeBIT this week and > getting very enthusiastic responses. When I discuss XQL at trade shows, I > get enthusiastic responses. So the fact that there are also critics doesn't > bother me. > > If you want to implement a query language today, for reasonable effort, and > you want to use a language that has been implemented in other software > systems, I think XQL is a very good choice. There will be a W3C XML Query > Language Activity, and it will develop its own query language, and nobody > can say how similar or different it will be to any existing query language > for XML. I'm sure there will be a lot of interesting and creative work done > by the bright people who will be involved in that group - if you can afford > to wait a year to implement a query language, then by all means wait for > that language to be developed. > > Jonathan > > jonathan@t... > Texcel Research > http://www.texcel.no > > 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...) -- OptimaLogic - Finding Optimal Solutions Web/Crypto/OO/Unix/Comm/Video/DBMS sdw@l... Stephen D. Williams Senior Consultant/Architect http://sdw.st 43392 Wayside Cir,Ashburn,VA 20147-4622 703-724-0118W 703-995-0407Fax 5Jan1999 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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