You should be examining the use of XML. These
will be a flat file with author defined tags through
the authors defined dtd.
( http://www.w3.org/XML/ )
Clearly this is the general approach we should
be taking as the future of HTML is as a XML dtd.
There are already publicly available XML parsers.
( http://www.jclark.com/xml/ )
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lionel Siau [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 12 January 1999 10:36
> To: Geoff Hutchison
> Cc: Alan Schneider; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: htdig: Can ht://Dig do the following...
>
>
> AH..I asked the same question a few weeks ago and these are my some of the
> things I've found :
>
> (i) dig and most DBMs can't do it.
> (ii) I've heard the Oracle can do it with Context but I can't unravell
> their
> documentation which is convorluted.
> (iii) Altavista search engine can do it but it is only a demo and has
> higher
> platform requirements
> (iv) FINDEX does it beautifully BUT it is commercial(but reasonable price)
> and
> is a C/C++ dynamic lib only.
>
>
> If u're interested, pls contact me directly becoz we're doing the same
> thing
> exactly at the moment. Begining next week. It would be extremely useful to
> exchange ideas ie divide and conquer.
>
>
> Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Alan Schneider wrote:
> >
> > > 1) How can I index a flat file? The documentation is very limited in
> > > this regard?
> >
> > Do you mean a standard text file? It does this by default. If you want
> it
> > to return parts of that text file (i.e. the text file is actually a
> > database), I'm afraid it's not possible. If you can come up with a nice
> > way to distinguish between standard text files and flat-file databases,
> > I'm all ears (figuratively, of course ;-)
> >
> > > 2) Is their a way to specify the type of data that is in a field? We
> > > currently use another product which allows us to return the results
> > > sorted by date, numeric, etc. Is this capability available in
> ht://Dig?
> >
> > There will be support for sorting matches at least by date and title in
> > the next release, I hope.
> >
> > > 3) Is there any active development on ht://Dig?
> >
> > Quite a bit. You can see http://dev.htdig.org/ if you're interested in
> > helping out or just want the bleeding-edge development source. Or you
> can
> > grab the weekly CVS snapshots off of
> http://www.htdig.org/files/snapshots/
> > I'm about to announce a feature freeze for the upcoming 3.1.0 release.
> >
> > -Geoff Hutchison
> > Williams Students Online
> > http://wso.williams.edu/
> >
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