> As you say Word/Character proximity searching is not that interesting, =
and
> if this is desired, XML doesn't have much to add to the current equatio=
n
I beg to disagree twice. a) proximity search is very important for any
one searchingany reasonably-sized database with a variety of texts; b) XM=
L can
help a lot,
even thou most non-XML capable search engines can already offer proximity=
searching.
We have bee able to solve quite a number of problems using proximity. If =
we
did not have it we could still be able to solve those problems albeit spe=
nding
much more effort, time, intelligence and CPU cicles.
- fernando
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