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- From: wohler@vnet.ibm.com (Wayne L. Wohler)
- Message-ID: <19930111.152527.130@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:57:01 MST
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- Subject: Re: SGML (DSSSL) Query Grammar
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- In <ROBIN.93Jan9123126@utafll.utafll.uta.edu> Robin Cover writes:
- >I would like to know if anyone has recent information about the DSSSL
- >Query Grammar. There's a single file in the ORA/Davenport directory
- >dating I think to July 1992, but I'm sure lots has happened since
- >then. I'd like to read any papers, minutes, TRs or other documents
- >that discuss the theoretical and practical issues.
- There has certainly been a lot of changes in the DSSSL grammar since
- last June. The grammar has not changed significantly since the SGML '92
- Query Grammar session in Danvers, although some changes will be
- considered in Knoxville. In general, the best place for information on
- DSSSL and its status is the standards editor, Sharon Adler. I suggest
- that unless you have an urgent need for immediate information, you hold
- such queries until after a special working group meeting being held
- March 15-26. The purpose of that meeting is to prepare the DIS for
- distribution and review. Sharon's e-mail address is 'sca@ebt.com'.
- >
- >Michael Sperberg-McQueen said parenthetically in the "SGML '92 report"
- >that he hoped the list of thirteen sample queries distributed by
- >Paula Angerstein to the panelists discussing SGML query languages
- >might be posted publicly. Does anyone have this list, or was it
- >posted already? Could anyone supply Paula's email address?
- I have seen (and have a copy of) the hardcopy of the results of the
- query session in Danvers (it does not include the SFQL queries). I have
- not seen such any comprehensive softcopy. If someone has hardcopy of
- the SFQL queries, please send them to me. For the first 20 who ask,
- (please as through e-mail) I'll send hardcopy of the queries. If there
- are significantly more requests than that, I won't be able to respond.
- >
- >More generally, I would be interested in anything written recently on
- >SGML query languages, whether specifically related to DSSSL or HyTime
- >or not. I'll gratefully receive any such documents or leads that will
- >help track down the most promising proposals and experiments.
- I haven't seem much besides the DSSSL working papers. The other day I
- did read a paper <cit>SGML Documents and Nonlinear Text Retrieval</> by
- Macleod, I.A. et al. The paper cam from the proceedings of a conference
- on intelligence text and image handling ... RIAO '91 in Barcelona. It
- referenced and built on FUL/TEXT by Fulcrum Technologies. It also
- referenced a paper by Macleod <cit/A Query Language for Retrieving
- Information from Hierarchic Text Structures/, Technical Report
- 89-263, Queen's University, Kingston, 1989 which I have not seen.
-
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