conference call (fwd)

[C. Perry Willett]

As I mentioned during the conference call, we've been
testing various XML search engines. When we first looked
at Tamino, we found to our surprise that it couldn't
even handle TEILite, and the salesperson had never heard
of the TEI. Tamino is a product of Software AG, which calls
itself "The XML Company." We told them about TEI
and our needs for full-text, which was all news to them.
The current version of Tamino can handle TEI, and Harvard,
Virginia and Emory are starting to use it for full-text.
We've found that many of these XML search engines are 
designed with databases in mind, not full-text. I think
it would be worthwhile just knowing that various software
can or cannot handle TEI dtds. 

Perry Willett
Main Library
Indiana University
pwillett at indiana.edu

<p><p><p>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> > Does this has to be an either or?  With something as complex and
> > diverse as the TEI set of DTDs, I can't really see how a review could
> > provide much more than a general thumbs up or down.
> 
> it can give an impression of coverage. ie "I was able
> to add a new menu for my project in about 1 hour and 50 lines
> of Visual Basic" is surely interesting? or "they rely on
> unchanged CSS for display so you can do TEI figures"?
> 
> > The needs I have
> > differ substantially from the average TEI user (if such an animal
> really? are you _sure_ you dont fit some sort of pattern?
> 
> > happy to provide the necessary files for a test suite that check for
> > all kinds of CJK compatibility.  While it might not be feasable in the
> > short term, I hope that we can keep the production of a test suite as
> > a future work item.  
> 
> yes, we need test suites for other reasons than reviewing commercial
> software ...
> 
> > Sebastian brought up, among other things, interoperation with W3C
> > standards.  Has there been any further discussion about that?
> if only...
> 
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