- From: Jim Davis <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:18:21 PDT
- To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
You may want to read about STARTS, which is a Stanford proposal for a standard Internet query language. The STARTS work predates WebDAV and thus does not use the terminology of WebDAV, nor XML, but has some points of resemblance. Like DASL it defines a server-indepedent syntax for query and results. Unlike DASL it also addresses issues of resource discovery (choosing those sources most likely to be able to answer a query) and query merging (gathering statistics from diverse servers to enable a program to merge ranked results), and also unlike DASL it defines only a single query language, where DASL proper is more like a transport for multiple query languages. See http://www-db.stanford.edu/~gravano/starts_home.html
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