On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, John Morrison wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, 08 December 2001 11:44 pm
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Ant: Re: Adding XML searching with Lucene
> >
> >
> > Bernhard Huber wrote:
> >
> > > >Which leads me to think that making crawling, indexing and searching as
> > > >Avalon components might be FS since we're not going to use any other
> > > >implementation of these....
> > > >
> > > I'm sorry but what means FS?
> >
> > Flexibility Syndrome: when you want to do more than necessary because it
> > appears cool but later on you find out it was a mistake to do it and now
> > you have to support it and others are taking this even further down the
> > wrong path and you can't stop them!
> >
> > > >What do you think?
> > > >
> > > I try to switch to implementing again, as there are quite some nice
> > > ideas, but let's implement them....
> > > Let's continue to "work"....
> >
> > :)
> >
> > > As a result of the last emails I would summarize:
> > > * Avalon components stays
> > > * your naming
> > >
> > > org.apache.cocoon.components.crawler, and
> > org.apache.cocoon.components.search are okay. It makes more
> > sense, can you put some skeleton into the cvs, or send it to  me?
> >
> > Why don't you throw in your skeleton ideas here and we discuss then in
> > the open?
> >
> > > * I will implement some paging for the search result, if there are too
> > > much search result for displaying on a single page.
> >
> > Yep, this is a must do.
> >
> > > * I will study the Main class for the internal crawling..
> >
> > Great
> >
> > > * As I read some other mail of you; you are thinking about some more
> > > indexing calculation using matrix-calculus.
> >
> > yes, more on this to follow soon, but for now, your indexing is good
> > enough to implement the rest around it, we'll tune the indexing later on
> > (even because semantic relevance rating require some deep Lucene changes
> > that might not easy to get approuved, we'll see how that goes, but I'll
> > keep pushing)
> >
> > > * I will try to write some docu, how to use the "XML Searching".
> >
> > nice
> >
> > > * First XSP is okay, a generator for the searching should be written,
> > > let's call it:
> > >
> > > org.apache.cocoon.components.search.SearchGenerator.
> >
> > I'd call it
> >
> >  org.apache.cocoon.generator.SearchGenerator
> >
> > that uses
> >
> >  org.apache.cocoon.component.search.Searcher
> >
> > this is coherent with the rest of the system.
> >
> > > What about the xml output of the SearchGenerator?
> > > Search Generator XML DTD, if you want it to be RDF, i have to
> > read the RDF documentation more closely, the next few days..... :)
> >
> > Nah, forget RDF for now, let's keep it as simple as possible:
> >
> > searching for 'cocoon' would result in something like:
> >
> >  <search:results>
> >   <search:hit rank="1" score="89%" uri="...">
>
> Wouldn't rank be determined by <search:hit>'s position() within
> <search:results>?

Not necessarily. Think about pagination.

Giacomo

> >    <xhtml:p>
> >     <search:highlight>Cocoon</search:highlight> now offers semantic
> > <search:highlight>search</search:highlight>
> >    </xhtml:p>
> >   </search:hit>
> >   ...
> >  </search:results>
> >
> > As you can see, this also includes part of the "context" where the
> > textual information is found. This follows the Google model and I think
> > it would be a *great* feature to have.
> >
> > But this requires more thinking, I'd say let's ignore it for now, so you
> > can come up with
> >
> >  <search:results xmlns:search="http://apache.org/cocoon/search/1.0>
> >   <search:hit rank="1" score="89%" uri="..."/>
> >   ...
> >  </search:results>
> >
> > which is good enough for now but could be easily improved later on.
> >
> > >  I hope you don't mind making these suggestions, but after some emails i
> > > get a bit confused about what should be really done.
> >
> > Don't worry, I love your 'hands on' attitude. It balances my 'think a
> > lot and never get something done' one :)
> >
> > > As there is surley some need for the searching stuff in cocoon,
> > let's do it.
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > > I must admit that i have some limited time only, which i can put into
> > > implementing...
> > > Nevertheless i like that email&idea exchange, learning a lot...
> >
> > Learning is always the the fun part :)
> >
> > --
> > Stefano Mazzocchi      One must still have chaos in oneself to be
> >                           able to give birth to a dancing star.
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                             Friedrich Nietzsche
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