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  JObjects QuestAgent 4.0.7
        RELEASE NOTES
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Changes in 4.0.7
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- Improved performances of the QuestAgent search engine. 
  For large datasets with thousands of documents searching 
  can be several times faster than earlier.

- Improved JavaScript templates for search applet with
  word highlighting to provide compatibility with
  Internet Explorer 5.0.

- Fixed security problem that was affecting QuestAgent
  applets in Netscape Communicator 4.6.


Changes in 4.0.5
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- New Tool: HTML Index Extractor.

- New example have been provided for search by more 
  than one index database field using HTML/JavaScript
  interface.

- Improved JavaScript used in Word Highlighting 
  interface to avoid errors on page reloading.


Changes in 4.0.4
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- Improved support for accented characters. Now, 
  words can be indexed with (by default) or without 
  accents. Accent removal makes use easier to users 
  non-experienced in accented letters typing. For 
  example, instead for "de" it's sufficient to 
  search for "ode".
  To turn on accent removal, add "RemoveAccents=yes" 
  line to your index profile before you build index 
  database.

- Improved word recognition in word highlighting 
  process.


Changes in 4.0.3
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- Improved compatibility with Netscape 3.0 browser
  HTML/JavaScript and Word Highlighting interfaces 
  are now functional in this browser.
  However, due to limitations in Netscape 3.0, 
  navigation controls in word highlighting interface
  are disabled.
  
- Added support for a document part exclusion.
  Content between <QuestIgnore> and </QuestIgnore> 
  tags won't be indexed.

- Added support for hit sorting by custom data field.
  By default, all found documents will be sorted by 
  its relevance. Specify collection<num>.query.SortBy 
  parameter if you want to sort items by some other 
  criteria (title or file location for example.) List 
  of found documents will still contain the same 
  items (most relevant ones) but in different order.

- Fixed dead-lock problem in word highlighting 
  applet that was affecting databases with more 
  than 5,000 documents.

- Fixed script incompatibility problem in qascript.htm 
  template (HTML/JavaScript interface)


Changes in 4.0.2
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Changes in 4.0.2 mostly affect Word Highlighting 
interface providing:

- Compatibility with systems without initialized 
  network layer
- Faster searching in Netscape (but difference 
  could be visible in IE also)
- Smaller Java archives footprint
- Easier customization of search forms using 
  JavaScript


What's new in 4.0 Pro
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- Field indexing based on HTML Meta tags and/or XML 
  data files

- Search Terms Highlighting

- Search by named index database field

- Customizable Search Forms

- Results Templates

- Customizable Search Output

- Native installers for Windows, Unix and Macintosh

- Many other changes, improvements and fixes...



About XML
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a data format 
for structured document interchange on the Web. 
It is desinged by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
http://www.w3.org

QuestAgent is shipped with IBM's XML for Java. XML for
Java is validating XML parser!


