[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: Reality check needed ....

• To: "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Reality check needed ....
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:03:48 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <72QM5ZGFXSQ353ZYT6ZXE9VRTYX.3d4ee3a5@MChamp>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> "By standardizing information indexing and retrieval on an 
> open standard ? XML, or extensible 
> markup language ? the next-generation Windows promises to 
> make a hard drive and network as easily 
> searchable as the Internet."
> 
> This smells a bit like the crack I was smoking in about 1997 
> :-) [take that, 
> e-mail filtering software and humor-impaired gummint spy 
> types] Unfortunately, it turns out that 
> XML-based queries aren't magic UNLESS there is a certain 
> amount of predictable structure to the 
> markup, otherwise you're just doing a full-text search.

I suspect they are saying that adding metadata to the file system will
make it more easily searchable, which is fairly obviously true. Anything
that sees the end of the three-character file extension must be a step
forward. Doing it with XML is handy but largely irrelevant. The
openness, if anything, will come from supporting WebDAV access.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@n...
work: Michael.Kay@s... 

• References:
  • Reality check needed ....
    • From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>

• Prev by Date: Re: Re: maps
• Next by Date: Re: Re: maps
• Previous by thread: Reality check needed ....
• Next by thread: RE: Reality check needed ....
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread