On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:11:04AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote: > Is the issue that an effective search process must easily figure out > the method needed to look inside a particular object, No, that's not the issue. It would be the issue, however, were we considering such searching through blobs which we are not.
> but plain text > file content does not itself say, for example, "I am an ASCII text > file"? That, however, is correct. That's why I suggested converting the "plain text" to unicode encoded text and store it in a unicode encoded file with the proper markers saying "I am a utf8 little endian text file". It is still text but it's sufficiently self-descriptive. > Does GNUmed have --- or is it in future intended to have --- a search > process that, based on start of file markers inside objects, can > easily determine a method to do e.g. boolean searches inside the > object(s), facilitated by some kind of re-usable open source plug-in? No and no. The docs viewer does work in a similar way, however. It exports the blob into a file and uses some OS level heuristics to determine the MIME type of the exported file and runs the viewer associated with that mime type. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
