Re: text searching

David,

First, a disclaimer: I do *not* speak for the W3C or for any Working Group 
of that organization.  This message contains purely my own opinions.  Also, 
I work for a vendor who has interests in this area, so my opinion is 
probably biased by my employment.

The W3C XML Query WG is vividly aware (that is, we have heard the 
requirement previously) of the interest in text searching mechanisms for 
XML querying facilities (particularly the emerging XQuery 
specification).  I don't have anything really concrete to tell you right 
now about it other than to say that a number of members of that WG are 
actively interested in seeing what can be specified meaningfully.  It is 
not beyond the realm of possibility that the W3C will decide that this area 
of technology is something worth pursuing, but no decision has yet been 
made to that effect.  There are certainly full-text products that are 
XML-aware, but I do not believe that a standardized interface is 
implemented by multiple such products (which is why the W3C could well find 
it an interesting thing to pursue).

Sorry I can't tell you anything more solid right now, but the question 
asked in another quarter or so might result in a more dependable "yes" or 
"no" (with regards to the W3C taking an active role).

Thanks for your interest,
    Jim

At 10:22 AM 2002-01-09 -0800 Wednesday, David Loy wrote:
>I have been off of this list for a few months. Can
>someone tell me the progress of getting text-searching
>mechanisms into the standard (eg. word proximity, word
>booleans, phrases, etc)
>
>If there hasn't been progress has someone come up with
>an non-propriety xml query language that does support
>this
>thanks
>David Loy
>
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