I recently adapted the htmlsearch plugin for DITA to use with our
DocBook system. Basically htmlsearch a java indexer and some JavaScript
goo. It works ok with some limitations. For example, there's no stemming
(if you search for "started" you will get no hits for pages that contain
only "start" and vice versa) and for Asian languages I'm going to have
to adapt it so that it only searches meta keyword tags (and then beef up
the meta keyword tags so they contain keywords and any indexterms). The
problem is that the simple indexer looks for spaces and punctuation to
figure out what a word is. Japanese has no spaces between words and
little punctuation.
I do hope to share this work with the DocBook community (the htmlsearch
plugin has a BSD-style license), but I'm not sure when I'll have time to
pull it out of our build system and put it into a format someone else
could use.
Depending on your situation, you could also generate Ecilpse doc plugins
and set up an Eclipse infocenter (which uses Lucene internally). Or like
Scot suggests, generate a chm from DocBook, open the htmlhelp.hhp file
in RoboHELP, and generate WebHelp from that.
David
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From: Marvin, Scot [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:16 AM
To: BG; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] search engine with docbook
Hey BG:
What I've done in the past is generated the HTML and then used
the HTML in a help application tool (HAT), like Flare or RoboHelp.
If you're programmatically-inclined, you could generate a
HAT-like output with DocBook and then add the Lucene search engine to
it. More info at http://lucene.apache.org/.
Or, there's the old stand-by: generate one long page and use the
browser's search feature. It's yucky, but functional.
That's all the ideas I have right now.
-Scot
From: BG [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 6:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [docbook-apps] search engine with docbook
Hi,
I realize an online help (html) with docbook and I would like to
integrate a search engine.
Are there solutions to integrate a search engine with docbook?
Moreover I am a little amazed because having a search engine in
an online help is very common, nevertheless I don't find many solutions
on the subject.
Thank you,
BG
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