Re: Client-side searching proposal

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:16:26 +0100


>There are standard SQL exetensions that provide for a limited amount of
>full/text query specification. The formulation of the query is only half of
>the problem. The more difficult part of the problem (in my opinion) is how do
>you handle the "sub-document" addressability for the relevant fragments of
>the document to be retrieved or to be highlighted. Traditional database

Sub-document addressing is not a hard problem for SGML documents. Have
a look at the TEI schemes, or perhaps the HyTime schemes.

Can someone provide a URL for the online TEI specs?

Also, have a look at <URL:http://www.ebt.com/> for a server that has
sub-document adressing capabilities based on the SGML tree structure.