pcplantdb

[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Richard Morris writes:
 > <snip>
 > Is kfml a home brew thing? I can't find any references on the web.

Homebrew; making a new dtd is as easy as starting your own religion.
The hard part is getting others to use it... ;-)

 > 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.

Formating has not been a big concern so far, esp. because the same xml
is parsed to text and html.  Those kind of refinements will come
later.  You should try the CLI if you want clunky.  Neither 'tubers'
nor 'edible' is in to vocabulary (yet) but I did a search for the
above string and got the following (but only 7355 matches).  What's
the problem?

   Family       Genus Species                Common Name         Search Score
   Alliaceae    Allium cepa                  Onion               8
   Alliaceae    Allium cepa aggregatum       Potato onion        8
   Alliaceae    Allium cepa ascalonicum      Shallot             8
   Alliaceae    Allium sativum ophioscorodon Serpent garlic      8
   Rosaceae     Amelanchier alnifolia        Saskatoon           8
   Cupressaceae Chamaecyparis lawsoniana     Lawson cypress      8
   Rutaceae     Citrofortunella microcarpa   Calamondin orange   8
   Rutaceae     Citroncirus webberi          Citrange            8
   Rosaceae     Cotoneaster conspicuus       Tibetan cotoneaster 8
   Rosaceae     Cotoneaster x watereri                           8


 > 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.

Later.  Or hack it yourself and send me a patch.

 > <snip>

Source is imminent.

-- 
Chad Knepp
perl -e 'print pack"H*","7079674067616c617465612e6f72670a"'