The Javascript Offline Search library looks interesting. I hope you
submit your changes adding utf-8 support back to the project. I would be
interested in using it as part of a "webhelp for docbook" thing I've
started putting together. I've used a indexer from the htmlsearch plugin
from the DITA project which sounds similar to the JS Offline Search
library, but is less formally supported as a project (i.e. there's no
project page...it's just a zip file available from the files page of the
DITA yahoogroup).
I've posted the webhelp for docbook thing here:
http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/docbook-webhelp/index.html This should
provide the original poster with enough to get started for generating
webhelp-like output from DocBook and could be used pretty much as-is.
As I mention in that link, the support for Asian languages is limited
due to the fact that the indexer depends on spaces and punctuation to
identify words. Since Japanese lacks spaces between words and has little
punctuation, I've customized the xsls to add indexterms to the list of
keywords. So if you use copious keywords and indexterms, at lest some
searchs will return at least results for Japanese content. Perhaps this
is good enough for some people.
David
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From: Skopik Pavel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 2:13 AM
To: BG; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] search engine with docbook
Hello,
in or webhelp we have been using Javascript Offline Search
library for some time (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsofflinesearch/
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsofflinesearch/> ) with success. You
can have a look here how it works:
http://www.aipsafe.cz/files/tutorial/index.html
<http://www.aipsafe.cz/files/tutorial/index.html> .
It is a java library which indexes set of html files and builds
a javascript index. It has some nice features - you can use boolean
operators or search for phrase. More importantly it also implementes
basic stemming. The only issue is that it does not support other
characters then basic ascii, so we had to alter the code to be able to
index character with diacritics and ouput index files in UTF-8.
No packages have been released yet, but you can donwload it from
svn and compile it yourself. It is then easy to automate the indexing
process for example using ant. The only thing you have to do is to
generate a xml file with list of all resulting html files to index which
is then passed to the java library. This can be done in your
customization layer during docbook source files processing.
If you are interested I can prepare a package (basicaly xslt
template for generating files to index) to share with the DocBook
community and some thorough usage info.
Greetings,
Pavel
-----Original Message-----
From: BG [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:49 PM
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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