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We could do it in IADS as well across document collections. EBT was a lot more of a full-up SGML browser and had the edge, but doing it wasn't all that novel. Building indexes is an established practice. IADS was not web-enabled but a database is a database and other IETM systems were database driven long before we had the web. The meaningfulness of any claim like that can be questioned apart from the marketing value. But it does little harm to the literature as long as we are critical about assertions. Since we just did another long round on the Semantic Web, authoritative knowledge bases, the problems of broadcast systems and truth maintenance, we don't have to do it again. Just beware of the langoliers of marketing and what they do to systems that conflate identity, location, truth and falsity. Don't go to the marketing department to verify history. It isn't their job. They aren't bad; they are just there to sell. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Bob DuCharme [mailto:bob@u...] 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!
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