Re: text searching

For readers of this note who are interested in the subject of full-text 
query processing in an XML context (and who are associated with an 
organization that holds membership in the W3C), I suggest that you consider 
participating in the XML Query WG as your organization's 
representative.  The W3C website (www.w3.org) has instructions and 
information about joining the W3C and participating in its WGs.  You may 
also wish to contact the chair of the W3C XML Query Working Group 
(Microsoft's Paul Cotton, but please don't do so frivolously, as he gets 
enough email already ;^} ).

For more general interest in full-text querying, you might be interested to 
acquire a copy of the SQL/MM Full-Text standard, ISO/IEC 13249-2, which can 
be acquired in the USA from ANSI at www.ansi.org or internationally from 
ISO at www.iso.org.  This standard, although not *specific to XML* does 
define a standardized interface for full-text querying in general, 
including a nice selection of operators.  The standard has been implemented 
by at least a small number of database vendors (I happen to know that 
Oracle and IBM are among them, and there may well be others).

Enjoy,
    Jim

>>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).
>
>You're right, no standardized interface as such, although there are 
>conventions, mainly Boolean operators and Internet Query Operators ( +, -, 
>and quotes for phrases).
>
>I would very much like to get involved in any full-text XML querying 
>project.  I'm associated with CNI, a W3C member organization.

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