Re: Indirection in XQuery/XPath

Hi,

Shlomo Geva writes:

 > It can be further enhanced if we were to support following links (XLink?) 
 > to other documents - for instance, extend the example above to include 
 > selection terms that can only be got at by inspecting the cited Kohonen 
 > paper itself (i.e, another document altogether).  Indirection following 
 > XLinks and XPointers would be a really nice feature in a retrieval engine, 
 > albeit perhaps too complicated as an explicit and bare user interface 
 > feature.

We are just working on a logical data model and on an evaluation
engine for linked XML documents in the LinXIS project. First results
have been published on WWW-2002 and BTW-2003.  Some papers and a
visualization demo can be found at
  http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~may/LinXIS/

-Wolfgang
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