Hi all,

you can find DocBook files in many languages in the Mandriva Linux
Documentation SVN at
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/doc/MandrivaLinux/trunk/validated/content/Distrib/

HTH.

Camille.

On 12/08/2010 20:20, Ann-Marie Horcher wrote:
> I am bi-lingual, and would be able to test the German.  I do not have
> large docbook files to provide, and would not have time to produce
> them before deadline.  (Still completing my documentation and cleaning
> up final bugs)
>  
> I read French, but my Chinese is only conversational. 
>
>
>  
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>     On 12 Aug 2010, at 09:17 PM, Ann-Marie Horcher
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>>     I am one of the other GSOC students.  I would be happy to help my
>>     compatriot with testing.
>
>     Hi Ann,
>     Thank you very much for your kindness. 
>     Mainly we are in need of verifying the search results for
>     languages other than English. Currently webhelp has extensive
>     support for English, French, German and CJK languages. As both
>     David and I not familiar with these languages, it is little hard
>     to verify the search output.
>
>     And we need to verify that build process we specified in the doc
>     is precise, and easy to follow. 
>     If you can try to build the webhelp and make sure it works
>     perfectly with one of *your* docbook XML file, it is greatly
>     appreciated.
>     And if you are familiar with one of these languages I stated
>     above, and have docbook files to test them, it would be great.
>
>     Any feedback about this is welcome!
>
>     Ann, I hope you did a great work for this summer, and best of luck
>     for your project! :)
>
>     David, if you can find some docbook files which doesn't have any
>     confidential issues, please send them to the list.
>
>     Regards,
>     Kasun Gajasinghe 
>
>>
>>     On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Cramer, David W (David)
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Robert,
>>         Kasun knows more about the details of the stemmer, but I can
>>         point you to the documentation for the porter stemmer we used:
>>
>>         http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/porter/stemmer.html
>>
>>         Currently, English, French, and German are supported.
>>
>>         You are correct search does not support wildcards in
>>         searches, and I don't believe that the algorithm would return
>>         results with the same base but different prefixes (i.e.
>>         searching for "inhibit" won't show pages with "exhibit"), but
>>         I think that's normal for any search engine.
>>
>>         I'll add "Support wildcards in query string" to the list of
>>         future features. I thought I had added it there already but I
>>         see now that it's not listed.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         David
>>
>>
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         From: Robert Fekete [mailto:[email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>]
>>         Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:14 AM
>>         To: [email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>>         Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Help needed testing CJK search
>>         support in webhelp
>>
>>         Hi David,
>>
>>         First of all, thank you for both of you for your work, it
>>         looks very promising!
>>         I have a few questions about how search and stemming works:
>>         - Is it possible to add partial matches to the search
>>         results? For example, now
>>         if you search for install, installing, or installed, the same
>>         results are
>>         returned (correctly), because these words all come from
>>         install. But if you
>>         don't type the entire word (say, only 'inst'), there aren't
>>         any results.
>>         - Am I right that the search engine does prefix-only matches?
>>         (nstall, *nstall,
>>         etc. does not work)
>>
>>         Regards,
>>
>>         Robert
>>
>>
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>>     -- 
>>     Ann-Marie Horcher
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