Greetings, all,

Is anyone on the list using a search engine like Inktomi to provide access
to encoded finding aids? Inktomi has some default search fields that can be
mapped to selected elements in an EAD-encoded finding aid, and we'd like to
use this feature to enhance retrieval (Inktomi is the search engine for our
campus Web site). But searching would have to be done against the XML
finding aid files, while we feel display of retrieved documents should be in
HTML (until more browsers incorporate XML display tools like MSXML). Does
anyone have experience in setting up searches on XML docs while delivering
retrieved docs in HTML?

Many thanks.

Marsha Maguire
Manuscripts and Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
University of Washington Libraries
P.O. Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900
(206) 543-1879; fax (206) 543-1931
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