-$Id: README,v 1.22 2002-12-09 16:29:44 mike Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.23 2007-06-06 14:42:53 mike Exp $
CQL-Java - a free CQL compiler, and other CQL tools, for Java
* XCQL (the standard XML representation)
* CQL (i.e. decompiling the parse-tree)
* PQF (Yaz-style Prefix Query Format)
+ * BER code for the Z39.50 Type-1 query
* A random query generator, useful for testing.
-CQL is "Common Query Language", a new query language designed under
+CQL is "Common Query Language", a query language designed under
the umbrella of the ZING initiative (Z39.59-International Next
Generation). The official specification is at
- http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/cql-syntax.html
+ http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/cql/
and there's more (and friendlier) information at
http://zing.z3950.org/cql/index.html
XCQL is "XML CQL", a representation of CQL-equivalent queries in XML
which is supposed to be easier to parse. The specification is at
- http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/xcql.html
-and includes an XML Schema.
+ http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/xml-files/xcql.xsd
+in the form of an XML Schema.
But if you didn't know that, why are you even reading this? :-)
-What's what in this distribution?
+WHAT'S WHAT IN THIS DISTRIBUTION?
+---------------------------------
- README This file
- VERSION The version-number of this distribution
- src Source-code for the CQL-Java library
- lib The compiled library file, "cql-java.jar"
- bin Simple shell-scripts to invoke the test-harnesses
- docs Documentation automatically generated by "javadoc"
- test Various testing and sanity-checking frameworks
- etc Other files: CQL Grammar, generator properties, etc.
+ README This file
+ VERSION The version-number of this distribution
+ Changes History of releases
+ LGPL-2.1 The GNU lesser GPL (see below)
+ Makefile, Build Files to control compilation.
+ src Source-code for the CQL-Java library
+ lib The compiled library file, "cql-java.jar"
+ bin Simple shell-scripts to invoke the test-harnesses
+ docs Documentation automatically generated by "javadoc"
+ test Various testing and sanity-checking frameworks
+ etc Other files: CQL Grammar, generator properties, etc.
"Installation" of this package would consist of putting the bin
directory on your PATH and lib/cql-java.jar on your CLASSPATH.
$ CQLParser 'title=foo and author=(bar or baz)'
$ CQLParser -c 'title=foo and author=(bar or baz)'
- $ CQLParser -p /etc/pqf.properties 'title=foo and author=(bar or baz)'
+ $ CQLParser -p /etc/pqf.properties 'dc.title=foo and dc.author=bar'
$ CQLLexer 'title=foo and author=(bar or baz)'
(not very interesting unless you're debugging)
$ CQLGenerator etc/generate.properties seed 18
AUTHOR
------
-All code and documentation by Mike Taylor <mike@z3950.org>
- http://www.miketaylor.org.uk
+Code and documentation by Mike Taylor, Index Data <mike@indexdata.com>
+ http://indexdata.com
+ http://zing.z3950.org/cql
Please email me with bug-reports, wishlist items, patches, deployment
stories and, of course, large cash donations.
GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE). A copy of the licence is included in this
distribution, as the file LGPL-2.1. This licence does not allow you
to restrict the freedom of others to use derived versions of CQL-Java
-(i.e. you must share your enhancements), but does let you deploy
-CQL-Java as a part of a non-free larger work.
+(i.e. you must share your enhancements), but does let you do pretty
+much anything else with it. In particular, you may deploy CQL-Java as
+a part of a non-free larger work.
SEE ALSO
projects / cql-java-moved-to-github.git / commitdiff