Re: Fuzzy matches

Nick Lamb (njl98r nospam at ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:29:44 +0100 (GMT)

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 robert nospam at moon.eorbit.net wrote:

> On 15 Aug, Richard Funderburg wrote:
> > It seems to me that since the update, xget.pl doesn't return anything other
> > than the XML header when a CD isn't found:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE CDInfo SYSTEM "http://www.cdindex.org/dtd/CDInfo.dtd">
> >
> > It used to return "CD was not found" also. Anyone else have this problem?
>
> Thanks for pointing it out -- its now fixed.

Too fixed I think, if I understand the current intention of the fuzzy match

Now it returns "CD was not found" for a fuzzy match :(
So for a CD app, it's worse to use XML than HTML because the XML doesn't
permit fuzzy matches. Which, IMHO, sucks

Nick.