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  <article>
      <title>Configuring and hacking the GIFT </title>
      <author>Wolfgang Müller</author>
      <date>0.12, 18th of August 2000</date>
      <abstract>
The GIFT (ex: Viper) is a content based image retrieval (CBIRS)
tool. It has been developed at the University of Geneva. See the 
README and AUTHORS for more details.
This manual gives information to the advanced user and the hacker on
how to configure the GIFT. To the hacker it gives information on how
to include new query engines into the GIFT framework. 
      </abstract>
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    <sect>
      <heading>Introduction</heading>
      <p>The GIFT has been designed to maximize flexibility, both for
users and developers. This document explains, how viper can be
configured (levering this flexibility), and how the configuration
files are digested in the interior workings of GIFT.</p>
      <p>The GIFT has been designed to support a flexible XML-based
communication progocol, MRML (Multimeda Retrieval Markup
Language). The configuration file</p>
    </sect>
    <sect>
      <heading>MRML</heading>
    </sect>
  </article>


