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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

> So there's this new tool out that I've been calling eden.  Right now
> it is only an interface to the PFAF dataset, but I'm quite pleased
> with it.  You can test a live version at <http://galatea.org/eden>.  I
> plan to have an alpha version code release available before I leave for
> Thanksgiving.

Looking good.

> I'm going to blab on about some of it's design and features now.  In
> order to achieve the level of abstraction necessary, I developed in
> parallel a text CLI and web/html interface.  Internally all of the
> data is represented in an xml affectionately known as kfml and then
> parsed to text or html based on the client.  To increase performance
> pages are cached [at the client level] based on input.  The search
> engine has been improved.  It can search the entire PFAF dataset from
> a single string doing substring matches in all name columns (fuzzy
> spelling), and has a vocabulary of 130+ words that could increase to
> thousands with little performance loss.  Just try it.

Is kfml a home brew thing? I can't find any references on the web.

A couple of sugestions,
1) some help as to what you can search for. How do I find
        "plants with edible tubers growing on acid soil"
        Hum, 7360 search results! Search box could be bigger.
2) context of search results, if its not just a latin name
        or common name. I like to give a bit of the phrase
        around the matched word.

        ttfn

                Rich
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