This suite of web pages provides demonstrations and explanations of TextServer, and shows how this product
enhances access to structured text, both within conventional relational database technology, and across the
World Wide Web (www). This demonstration is intended to be "Open
Source". All source files, script files, translation files, text files and directories employed in this
demonstration should be readily viewable. We welcome feedback
Please navigate to those parts of this demonstration that are of particular interest to you:
Tutorials
A suite of tutorials that introduce basic concepts.
The Devil's Dictionary
Retrieve information from the Devil's Dictionary. This is a humorous collection of cynical definitions
presented as a dictionary.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Retrieve information from the Complete Works of Shakespeare.
The Bible
Retrieve information from the Bible.
The University of Waterloo Calendar.
A demonstration of an application which profits from employing TextServer.
Transcripts of the ICTY Trials.
A searchable archive of the ICTY
trial transcripts. Of particular interest might be the
Milosevic Trial.
Milosevic trial discussion forum.
A searchable archive of the Jurist posted discussions pertaining to
the Milosevic Trial.
The Information Schema.
Dynamically explore the information schema.
Volume Testing.
Results derived from volume testing our software using the TPCD benchmark.
Xquery Use Cases.
W3C XML Query Use Case solutions using Textserver software.
The HTML web pages used in this demonstration are constantly being improved. The software needed to execute
these demonstrations may be temporarily unavailable. If you are unable to execute a demonstration, please
notify us of the problem, and try again at a later time. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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