🚀 go-pugleaf

In <ROBIN.93Jan9123126@utafll.utafll.uta.edu> Robin Cover writes:
>I would like to know if anyone has recent information about the DSSSL
>Query Grammar.  There's a single file in the ORA/Davenport directory
>dating I think to July 1992, but I'm sure lots has happened since
>then.  I'd like to read any papers, minutes, TRs or other documents
>that discuss the theoretical and practical issues.
There has certainly been a lot of changes in the DSSSL grammar since
last June.  The grammar has not changed significantly since the SGML '92
Query Grammar session in Danvers, although some changes will be
considered in Knoxville.  In general, the best place for information on
DSSSL and its status is the standards editor, Sharon Adler.  I suggest
that unless you have an urgent need for immediate information, you hold
such queries until after a special working group meeting being held
March 15-26.  The purpose of that meeting is to prepare the DIS for
distribution and review.  Sharon's e-mail address is 'sca@ebt.com'.
>
>Michael Sperberg-McQueen said parenthetically in the "SGML '92 report"
>that he hoped the list of thirteen sample queries distributed by
>Paula Angerstein to the panelists discussing SGML query languages
>might be posted publicly.  Does anyone have this list, or was it
>posted already?  Could anyone supply Paula's email address?
I have seen (and have a copy of) the hardcopy of the results of the
query session in Danvers (it does not include the SFQL queries).  I have
not seen such any comprehensive softcopy.  If someone has hardcopy of
the SFQL queries, please send them to me.  For the first 20 who ask,
(please as through e-mail) I'll send hardcopy of the queries.  If there
are significantly more requests than that, I won't be able to respond.
>
>More generally, I would be interested in anything written recently on
>SGML query languages, whether specifically related to DSSSL or HyTime
>or not.  I'll gratefully receive any such documents or leads that will
>help track down the most promising proposals and experiments.
I haven't seem much besides the DSSSL working papers.  The other day I
did read a paper <cit>SGML Documents and Nonlinear Text Retrieval</> by
Macleod, I.A. et al.  The paper cam from the proceedings of a conference
on intelligence text and image handling ... RIAO '91 in Barcelona.  It
referenced and built on FUL/TEXT by Fulcrum Technologies.  It also
referenced a paper by Macleod <cit/A Query Language for Retrieving
Information from Hierarchic Text Structures/, Technical Report
89-263, Queen's University, Kingston, 1989 which I have not seen.

Wayne L. Wohler                   Internet:  wohler@vnet.ibm.com
Dept G82/910M                     IBMMAIL:   USIB29WX@IBMMAIL
Publishing Solutions Development             Phone: 1-303-924-0470
IBM Corporation
Boulder, Colorado  80301-9191