Hello, We are starting to investigate different methods of searching large medical documents for key words or phrases. The documents may be text, html, xml, or MS word documents. The main idea is to search and retrieve a list of documents quickly that match a given medical key word(s) or phrase(s), similar to google or other internet search engines; this is not intended to be an internet application, but strictly an in-house application.
I've been reading the Oracle Context and XDB guides, and have several questions. 1) Is XDB only for XML documents? 2) Is storing/searching a document in XDB faster than using Context and a context index? 3) Is there any Oracle tool to convert text, html, ms word documents to XML? 4) Context appears to be more flexible (handles text, html, msword and xml), but I'm guessing that XDB is faster for just XML; is that correct? 4) Are there other non-Oracle tools that are (in your humble opinion) superior to XDB and Context? Cost is a definite factor. Any other comments regarding XDB, Context or other tools are very welcome. Thanks to any responders. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
