DocSoft (www.docsoft.com), a provider of XML software solutions, announced on April 1 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 context searching of XML-based documents. DocSoft plans to start public beta testing of X3.NET on May 15.
Andrey Kulik, the lead developer of the project, said that 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, that X3.NET will make all searches effective and easy, and that indexing and searching a structured document versus an unstructured document can provide some unique capabilities not available in blind searching.
