XML Search Engine Begins Beta Testing

DocSoft, a provider of XML software solutions, yesterday announced that it is seeking qualified beta participants for its XML search engine, called 'X3.NET'.

The software being developed using Microsoft's .NET Framework, will be optimized for Windows Server 2003. It will also provide the capability to index formats such as HTML, Microsoft Office documents, CGM and PDF, while still providing true, context searching of XML-based documents, claims the company. The comapny plans to start public beta testing X3.NET on May 15th, 2005 and expects to release the software September 15th, 2005.

"The idea behind this new search technology is to provide more intuitive options and informational results to the end user through XML's inherent ability to make documents 'smarter'," said Andrey Kulik, the lead developer for the project. "X3.NET will make all searches effective and easy. Indexing and searching a structured document versus an unstructured document can provide some unique capabilities not available in blind searching."