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* Robert Koberg <rob@k...> [2005-08-23 10:42]: > Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > >Index what? Ideas, ideas emerging from conversations, the conversations? > >So far, what you are describing seems to be Google. Can you out Google > >Google? > > It is not like google. Google indexes HTML and it gives better rankings > to well marked up (according to google) HTML (which is why small > companies like us can get page rankings as high or higher than much > larger companies). > > With an XML indexer, you can index glossentries, faqs, quizes, whatever > and keep them separate so if you want to run a query against just faqs, > you can. > > You can do a search to get all external links (we distinguish between > external, internal and whatever other kind of links there might be) and > validate them. > > You can also use the searches to do things you might do with XQuery > (again, I don't know XQuery...). For example, in our CMS we have the > concept of page regions. Content pieces are assigned to folder/page > regions. Say I want to find out where a content piece has been assigned. > I can run a query on all assignments to return references to the > pages/folders where it has been assigned. You can do searches for all > users in a particular group, all projects that a user has access to, > etc.. etc... Which is why I'd propose defining a full-text schema language, so XML content can be described to a full-text search engine. The langauge would permit ranking based on markup, define what constitues a document, what constitutes a document collection, etc. -- Alan Gutierrez - alan@e... - http://engrm.com/blogometer/index.html - http://engrm.com/blogometer/rss.2.0.xml
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