Thesaurus support in new W3C XQuery/Xpath Full-Text working drafts

(see below for fwd'd announcement)

Interesting. Two worlds of searchy stuff collide. More interesting still   
is that they have explicit, if basic, support for thesauri.
 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xquery-full-text-20040709/#ftthesaurusoption

I wonder if it would be worth thinking about how a localhost'd SKOS
service might be exposed in such an environment. Also I wonder whether
the folk behind this new spec might be interesetd to take a look at the
SKOS API. The current Xquery Full-text system looks very basic though.
It is vague on how thesauri are named, on how they're modelled, and on
what it means to search "with thesaurus".

SKOS aside, there are a number of thesaurus experts on this list who may
be interested to provide feedback on WD-xquery-full-text-20040709
anyway. It looks like a promising start...

cheers,

Dan

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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:45:41 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Announcement: new W3C XQuery/Xpath Full-Text working drafts
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[apologies for multiple postings]

W3C's XML Query and XSL Working Groups have published two
drafts (one brand new, and one update) of the following specifications:

XML Query and XPath Full-Text (new)
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-full-text/

XML Query and XPath Full-Text Use Cases (updated)
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlquery-full-text-use-cases


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