Please take a look at the Access to Archives website at
http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

Content is stored as XML EAD.
Indexing, searching and retrieval is via Ixiasoft's TEXTMLserver and an ASP
application.
Presentation as HTML is driven on-the-fly via 3 XSLT stylesheets, ie. "Hits
in Context" (default view), "Full Text" (optional) and "Table of Contents"
(optional).
The XSL engine used is Microsft's MSXSL.

Matt Hillyard
Access to Archives,
Public Record Office,
London

> ----------
> From:         Marsha Maguire[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Encoded Archival Description List
> Sent:         14 February 2002 22:46
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Fielded searching and display of encoded finding aids?
>
> 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
> email: [log in to unmask]
>


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