- From: Edward C. Zimmermann <edz@elmyra.bsn.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:27:19 +0200 (MEST)
- To: www-zig@w3.org
- Cc: mike@indexdata.com
>> From: "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@elmyra.bsn.com> >> >> So do we now start to define search methods and models for the . . . >I think you're way off-base here, Ed. What we're talking about is >potential future mechanisms to give users the flexibility they need to >express their own applications' needs. The ability to treat any given Don't we have that now? The user can select the record or partial elements therefrom and then load it into whatever applications they want.. be it an XML parser for Xpath or Blast or their word processor or an RDBMS or .. Via Webfronts we routinely define MIME bindings to define the record type--- we index hetrogeneous data so a result set can contain anything from MS Word to PDF to HTML to XML to Mail to some Mail digest to some Excel spreadsheet to some Scanned and OCR'd bills to ...--- and allow these to be, in turn, bound to sets of applications.. We also allow via external methods the conversion ("on-the-fly") into all kinds of other formats dependent upon the view.. viz. a single "database" can have multiple views which have different methods for presents. If I want to talk about singular search (search of a record) in a non-trivial manner then I probably start to think about the kinds of searches that make sense on these and then... One person calls out Xpath and the next.. ______________________ Edward C. Zimmermann, Basis Systeme netzwerk, Munich <A HREF="http://www.stadtplandienst.de/query;ORT=m;PLZ=80802;STR=Leopoldstr%2E;HNR= 53;GR=2;PRINTER_FRIENDLY=TRUE">Leopoldstrasse 53-55, D-80802 Munich, Federal Republic of Germany</A> Telephone: Voice:= +49 (89) 385-47074 Fax:= +49 (89) 692-8150 Cellular:= +49 (179) 205-0539
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