Announcing: sgrep-1.91a - SGML and XML search and indexing tool

Date:     Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:39:54 +0200 (EET)
From:     Jani Jaakkola <jjaakkol@cs.Helsinki.FI>
To:       xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject:  ANNOUNCE: sgrep-1.91a - SGML and XML search and indexing tool

Sgrep-1.91a has been made available in source and binary forms. Binaries are available for Win32, HP-UX, Linux, OSF1 and Solaris platforms.

Sgrep is a tool to search and index text, SGML, XML and HTML files using structured patterns.

New features in version 1.91a include:

Nearness operators for both ordered and unordered nearness.
Support for 16-bit wide query terms (this really means, that Sgrep now supports Unicode)
Support for UTF-16 and UTF-8 encodings
'parenting' operator is now an order of magnitude faster (in the common case)
Sgrep now emits and parses #line-directives, which allows for more accurate error reporting
An option to query terms from index files
Many bug fixes
Introduces some new bugs (hopefully not as many as I fixed).

With version 1.91 I have actually implemented all the new features I ever planned to have in Sgrep-2. There are still things to do, but they are mostly small enchantments compared to the work required for introducing Unicode support to Sgrep. So now I am waiting for your suggestions, while I am updating the documentation. Should I:

Add support for using Sgrep from Perl scripts?
Create examples of how to use Sgrep as a local search engine for WWW-servers?
Make Sgrep fully XML-comformant? (With Unicode support this is now possible)
Something else?
Forget Sgrep, because it isn't really useful?

For more information about sgrep:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep.html.

For a more complete description of the new features see the file README in sgrep distribution or at:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep/README.txt.

For downloading sgrep use:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep/downloading.html.

Merry christmas!

- Jani

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