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<title>Introduction</title>
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for details.
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- <section id="future">
- <title>Future Directions</title>
-
- <para>
- These are some of the plans that we have for the software in the near
- and far future, ordered approximately as we expect to work on them.
- </para>
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- <para>
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improved support for &xml; in search and retrieval. Eventually,
- the goal is for &zebra; to pull double duty as a flexible
- information retrieval engine and high-performance &xml;
- repository. The recent addition of XPath searching is one
- example of the kind of enhancement we're working on.
- </para>
- <para>
- There is also the experimental <literal>ALVIS &xslt;</literal>
- &xml; input filter, which unleashes the full power of &dom; based
- &xslt; transformations during indexing and record retrieval. Work
- on this filter has been sponsored by the ALVIS EU project
- <ulink url="http://www.alvis.info/alvis/"/>. We expect this filter to
- mature soon, as it is planned to be included in the version 2.0
- release of &zebra;.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Finalisation and documentation of &zebra;'s C programming
- &api;, allowing updates, database management and other functions
- not readily expressed in &z3950;. We will also consider
- exposing the &api; through &soap;.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improved free-text searching. We're first and foremost octet jockeys and
- we're actively looking for organisations or people who'd like
- to contribute experience in relevance ranking and text
- searching.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Programmers thrive on user feedback. If you are interested in a
- facility that you don't see mentioned here, or if there's something
- you think we could do better, please drop us a mail. Better still,
- implement it and send us the patches.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you think it's all really neat, you're welcome to drop us a line
- saying that, too. You can email us on
- <email>info@indexdata.dk</email>
- or check the contact info at the end of this manual.
- </para>
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- </section>
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