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Thank you so much for your help that makes perfect sense and will be a huge help to building this search.
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Thank you so much for your help that makes perfect sense and will be a huge help to building this search.

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All,<br />
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I am very green to XML but I am familiar with HTML and SQL. I am working on designing a small application that will use Oracle Text to index and search documents to help improve our department. <br />
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I am just running into a roadblock when it comes to a design perspective. I started writing out some documents in MSWord (.doc) format to eventually load into Oracle and index, but then I started thinking XML is much more structured and would probably be indexed more efficiently and with the included metadata search would be more powerful. <br />
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Am I correct in this assumption and is it worth it to pick XML over any other format for Oracle Text?
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All,

I am very green to XML but I am familiar with HTML and SQL. I am working on designing a small application that will use Oracle Text to index and search documents to help improve our department. 

I am just running into a roadblock when it comes to a design perspective. I started writing out some documents in MSWord (.doc) format to eventually load into Oracle and index, but then I started thinking XML is much more structured and would probably be indexed more efficiently and with the included metadata search would be more powerful. 

Am I correct in this assumption and is it worth it to pick XML over any other format for Oracle Text?

Oracle Text XML and .DOC

Oracle is an object-relational database management system. It supports a large number of languages and application development frameworks. Its primary languages are SQL, PL/SQL and Java, but it also includes support for C and C++. Oracle also has its own enterprise modules and application server software.

Oracle Database

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.