摘要：Xinq (XML-inquire), it creates a web-application completely from an application-specification file which is written in XML. Xinq currently provides only search and browse functionality. It has been released with an Apache Software Licence and is distributed by SourceForge27. Although originally developed to meet the need for building accessible archives of deep web content, this tool has more general applicability. Anyone who has a back-end database which they would like to publish on the web with dynamic search and browse capability may find this tool useful for cutting down the time it takes to specify and implement a service. There are a number of sophisticated tools already in the market-place for mapping relational databases to XML schema and extracting the content as XML. However, to be genuinely useful as a prototyping tool for online information systems development, we required online update capability in the generated prototype. We felt that with a moderate development effort we could extend the principles of Xinq to build a generic update capability.
