DAVENPORT: XML Search Engine with builtin DocBook support

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

[Moderators note: I'm forwarding this to the DocBook list because
several people have asked about XML search engines with support
for DocBook in the past]

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>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:57:31 -0700
>To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
>From: Walter Underwood <wunder@infoseek.com>
>Subject: ANNOUNCE: new version of search engine for XML documents
>Sender: owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
>Reply-To: Walter Underwood <wunder@infoseek.com>
>
>Commercial announcement:
>
>Ultraseek Server 3.1 is available with improved support for XML.
>This is an internet search engine based on Infoseek/GO.com search,
>and designed for ease-of-admin, scalability, and relevant results.
>This is our third release with XML support. Ultraseek Server first
>supported indexing XML documents in version 2.1, way back in
>September 1998.
>
>The XML support is designed for providing search to users over
>sets of XML documents. It is not designed as a repository for
>authors, as a database-like search (SQL, XQL, etc.), nor for
>arbitrary searches depending on element context (XPath). It is
>designed for people to type in a word or a phrase and get the
>most relevant documents without having to learn a query language.
>
>The XML support in 3.1 allows admins to map text inside elements
>to search fields, and to have different mappings for different
>root element names (we can't rely on DTDs, since we only require
>well-formedness, not validity). If one document type uses <author>,
>another uses <docAuthor>, another uses <byline>, and yet another
>uses <creator>, all of those can be mapped to "author:name" searches.
>
>It ships with default mappings for:
>
>    TEI
>    DocBk XML V3.1.3
>    the Bosak religion collection
>    the Bosak Shakespear collection
>    FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
>
>and a fallback default mapping that covers some common conventions,
>like <title> or <TITLE> for the document title.
>
>Simple links in XLink format (that is, "href" attributes) will be
>followed by the spider. Elements qualified by namespaces can
>be mapped.
>
>For more information, see http://software.infoseek.com/. For detailed
>XML questions, you can ask me, but for more general software support
>you'll probably get more prompt answers from our usual support e-mail
>(it doesn't take vacations).
>
>Special thanks to James Clark for his high-quality parser (Expat) and
>his liberal license. And continuing special thanks to the Python community.
>
>wunder
>--
>Walter R. Underwood
>wunder@infoseek.com
>wunder@best.com (home)
>http://software.infoseek.com/cce/ (my product)
>http://www.best.com/~wunder/
>1-408-543-6946
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