Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: GOXML.COM: Context-based Searching
Author: Edd Dumbill Posted: 7/22/1999; 12:06:20 PM Topic: GOXML.COM: Context-based Searching Msg #: 8665 (In response to 8659) Prev/Next: 8664 / 8666
I agree. The immediate value to the user of this is limited by the fact that an XML document can have any form it's creator wants. It's like saying "this is a site to search any database anywhere". My intepretation ofmight be totally different to yours.<p> However, there's definitely scope where the same DTDs are being used, as it basically becomes a database query tool. The RSS and scriptingNews formats are good examples where it would work, though the low complexity of the documents hardly makes the context searching worth it.<p> Jakob Nielsen's article on Content Integration (<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990627.html">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990627.html</a>) makes the point that for successful content integration, separate sources need to agree on standard for meta-data. There is a strong echo of this in searching web XML documents.<p> Web search engines work because we all use a limited and relatively defined number of character sets. For web-wide XML search engines to work, we'll need to use a limited and relatively defined number of DTDs, or provide a better way to self-describe.<p> I'm not sure searching the global totality of XML documents is something that would prove very useful anyway (any more than current search engines, that is): far more useful would be to navigate through various interest areas and then perform this kind of context search on a subset (which increases the chances of being able to do something intelligent with the query anyway). A sort of merging of ideas between XMLtree.com and GoXML.com perhaps??<p> Anyway, from a developer's point of view, GoXML.com sounds like a great deal of fun. When you get a huge bunch of data together, interesting things always happen, as evidenced by My.UserLand.Com. <br><br><hr><b>There are responses to this message:</b><ul><li> <a href="msg008666.html">Re: GOXML.COM: Context-based Searching</a>, Matt MacKenzie, 7/22/1999; 12:21:11 PM<p><li> <a href="msg008668.html">Re: GOXML.COM: Context-based Searching</a>, duane@goxml.com, 7/22/1999; 5:28:20 PM<p></ul> <br><br><hr>This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:51:30 PM.<br><br>© Copyright 1998-2001 <a href="http://www.userland.com/">UserLand Software</a>, Inc. </blockquote></blockquote> </body> </html>