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Re: OT: Searching HTML or On topic, searching xml?
- From: Dave Pawson <dpawson at nildram dot co dot uk>
- To: Trevor Jenkins <trevor dot jenkins at suneidesis dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:20:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: OT: Searching HTML or On topic, searching xml?
- References: <5.1.1.6.2.20020903174437.02c27d60@pop3.nildram.co.uk>
At 17:59 03/09/2002, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
>As someoen who works with full-text retrieval systems all content is
>searchable to me. The presence of such specially tagged regions is, in my
>experience, only a hinderance to the average user; those whom it does help
>more are information scientists.
Fair comment. For greater filtering, I.e. lesser 'text' based searching,
I'd be happy with tagged content.
E.g. in an xslt stylesheet, its hard to search for stuff related to xslt stylesheets.
Regards DaveP