Re: Initial description of Pluggable Content Indexing Serviceproposalsub-proprosal

[Matthew MacKenzie <matt@xmlglobal.com>]

After re-reading appendix D and selected parts of the RS and RIM specs, I've 
come to apreciate the content index as classification concept more.  The 
automatic classification of XML content based on the inherent context of XML 
is something I have done extensive research work on, I just failed to 
identify appendix D as being just that.

With that said, what do you guys think about having an extra attribute on 
classifications that can identify the scheme as being content based (or 
externally applied)?  I think that being able to distinguish a scheme as 
being content would be useful.  The way this could be done now would be by 
having some text in the root classification for the scheme which suggests it 
is content based, which is not optimal given that there could be multiple 
schemes updated from one piece of content.  For example, let's say that a 
content indexer for mydoctype extracts fine grained geographical information, 
such as Street and Building and adds classification nodes in a classification 
scheme that is not content based.  In a UI, it would be nice to be able to 
format content-based entries differently so that the user knows that she is 
seeing an extension of a fixed classification.

Cheers,

Matt

On Sunday 16 September 2001 07:54, Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> Matt,
>
> Thanks for your encouraging words and comments on the brief writeup.
>
> Please find my comments inline. The summary of my thoughts is that we
> should articulate the use cases (with priority 1-3) that CBQ is expected to
> support and then stick with proposals that address those use cases.

-- 
Matthew MacKenzie
XML Global

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