XPAT

Synopsis

XPAT is an XML-aware search engine commonly used with the DLXS middleware. AS explained in the DLXS prospectus, "XPAT is based on the search engine previously marketed by Open Text as OT5(TM), and sometimes referred to as 'Pat' and 'Pat5.0.'"

Features

http://www.dlxs.org/docs/12a/xpat/index.html

System requirements

See http://www.dlxs.org/docs/12a/intro/sysreq.html, http://www.dlxs.org/techinfo/requirements.html, and http://www.dlxs.org/techinfo/environments.html .

Source code and licensing

The source code is not open source.

The University of Michigan is the exclusive licensor of XPAT to non-profit institutions. See http://www.dlxs.org/about/prospectus.html for details.

A free (gratis) version lacking Unicode support and limited to collections of 10 MB is available without technical support. See http://www.dlxs.org/products/index.html .

Support for TEI

No out-of-the-box support for TEI, but when used with the DLXS middleware, there is out-of-the-box support for "Text Class" content, which is based on the TEI Lite P3 version.

Language(s)

Documentation is in English.

Tech support

http://www.dlxs.org/about/prospectus.html

User community

Public list: http://listserver.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=dlxsfree-users

List open only to employees of subscribing institutions (those paying an annual fee for technical support): http://listserver.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=dlxs-list

Sample implementations

http://www.dlxs.org/about/samples.html

Current version number and date of release

XPAT 5.3.2 (YYYY-MM-DD)

XPAT Lite 5.3.0 (YYYY-MM-DD)

How to download or buy

http://www.dlxs.org/products/index.html

XPAT Lite 5.3.0 available at http://www.dlxs.org/products/xpat-lite/5.3.0