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In article <3602@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> hardiman@bcstec.ca.boeing.com writes:
>I am interested in knowing of any:
>1) software that can do ad hoc queries for data from
>ASCII SGML files

>BTW, my email has been a little dull lately, so even
>flames are welcome.

Mine does :-)  And you can't have it, nyah nyah nyah!
(Not a product, it's an in-house thing, and I'm slowly working myself
up into a suitable frame of mind for documenting it...)

>2) query and manipulation languages
>that might be suitable for ASCII SGML files.

Check out SFQL.

>I do not recall much discussion on using ASCII SGML documents
>as data bases, so this might be new territory.

Well, we've done it but there certainly doesn't (ahem) appear to
be a great deal written up in the literature admittedly.

>I know that there are a few systems that handle query
>capability, but they all seem to want to convert the
>file into a database.  That is no bueno for me - the
>files must stay ASCII files.

>If proprietary interests are involved, please advise.
It's not so much that ours is proprietary, it's that we've got too
much work on too make it acceptable for anyone except oursselves
to use.  To get our own product out we had to trim a couple of
corners and turn what was intended to be a general purpose tool
into something that just understood our own documents.

However I promise on my mother's grave (don't anyone tell her I
said that) that I'll document our system someday and put the
paper on the net somewhere.

G