Message-Id: <199602221534.JAA17120@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:32:47 -0600 From: Jeff Huestis <mailto:Jeff-Huestis@LIBRARY.WUSTL.EDU> Subject: Another type of gateway To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
The following is quoted from the document at:http://sansfoy.hti.umich.edu/www-to-pat/
"This technical paper presents the information necessary for implementing a gateway from a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) compliant WWW server to PAT, Open Text's text search engine. It presents information on several variants on implementation, including an Oxford English Dictionary (OED) lookup facility, a book browsing facility using the TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (P3), and a KWIC result generator for literary analysis in a text collection. One of the problems of the Web and of HTML in particular is the limited use of markup and limited structure recognition: only a small set of characteristics can be represented, and few of these have any functional value beyond presentational capabilities. While one would like to be able to deliver components of the text (e.g., a single glossary entry from a collection of several thousand), as rendered by the markup, only file transfer is possible without resorting to programs external to HTML and the server. Despite the anchor element, <A>, with its ability to provide hypertext links within and beyond the text, it is still necessary to return the entire file containing the link to the user, even when only a small portion is required for the link. The gateway capability discussed in this technical paper documents a method by which the Web administrator with access to PAT can use any number of richer SGML DTDs, and begin to provide the user with access to that richer set of tags and structural retrieval possibilities."
Jeff Huestis Washington University