I don't know your reasons for using Xindice, but using Lucene as your search engine may be a better approach: - The Lucene 1.2 jar is integrated into the Cocoon war. - With Lucene you divide your XML document into fields. For each field you can decide whether to store it into the Lucene index or refer to it as an external link. So you can store titles of documents internally in the Lucene index, and refer to the body as an external link. - Lucene can index XML documents that are stored in Xindice. So if your content is in Xindice, you can leave it there. - Indexing pdf and Word documents is not trivial. See the Lucene mailing list for solutions. - Building a search engine is complicated. You may have to tackle: literals, stemming, fuzzy search, stop words, and apply boolean operators to the parts that define the query of your users. Just to mention a few. - See jakarta.apache.org for more info on Lucene. Check the xml examples.
Hugo -----Original Message----- From: Sreenivasan N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to build custom search engine in cocoon? Hi ALL I am trying to build a search engine which search based on keyword to give document URL. The documents can be xml, pdf, word. How can i build a search engine. Design 1 : Use Xindice native database to keep the keywords, location of the document. Search into it and get the URL and give it as hyperlink. Design 2 : Save XML documents with keywords directly into Xindice and retrive Is there any method i can do a search were the keywords and the documents are seperate? Kindly help me out Thanks in advance Sreenivasan. "Attitudes are much more important than aptitudes." "Nothing is impossible for a willing heart" Sreenivasan N. Sony SARD Ext 5816 Email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
