<s>
Xaira	B-Application
is	O
an	O
XML	B-Protocol
Aware	O
Indexing	O
and	O
Retrieval	O
Architecture	O
developed	O
at	O
Oxford	O
University	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
funded	O
by	O
the	O
Mellon	O
Foundation	O
between	O
2005	O
and	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
SARA	O
,	O
an	O
SGML-aware	O
text-searching	O
system	O
originally	O
developed	O
for	O
searching	O
the	O
British	O
National	O
Corpus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Xaira	B-Application
has	O
been	O
redeveloped	O
as	O
a	O
generic	O
XML	B-Protocol
system	O
for	O
constructing	O
query-systems	O
for	O
any	O
kind	O
of	O
XML	B-Protocol
data	O
,	O
in	O
particular	O
for	O
use	O
with	O
TEI	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
version	O
supports	O
cross-platform	O
working	O
using	O
standards	O
such	O
as	O
XML-RPC	B-Protocol
and	O
SOAP	B-Application
.	O
</s>
