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Using Sgrep for Querying Structured Text Files (1996)
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@MISC{Jaakkola96usingsgrep,
author = {Jani Jaakkola and Pekka Kilpeläinen},
title = {Using Sgrep for Querying Structured Text Files},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
Sgrep is a Unix tool for searching the contents of text files. Sgrep implements an algebra of unrestricted text fragments called regions. The algebra allows the retrieval of document components, represented as regions, based on conditions on their relative containment and ordering. This simple yet powerful model is suitable for querying structured document formats like electronic mail, RTF, LaTeX, HTML, or SGML documents. We describe the sgrep query language and give examples of its use. Especially, we explain how sgrep can be used for querying and assembling SGML documents. Keywords: Text search tools, structured documents, SGML. 1 Introduction Every-day data processing creates large amounts of structured documents that have a more or less regular structure. Familiar examples of such structured documents include electronic mail, Usenet news, program source code, HTML pages, and SGML documents. Users seldom bother to index or to store such volatile texts in advanced information retr...
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sgml document structured text file structured document electronic mail relative containment text search tool sgrep query language volatile text introduction every-day data processing program source code document format advanced information retr unrestricted text fragment regular structure give example unix tool text file document component usenet news powerful model familiar example html page large amount
