According to Huby, Patrick:
> Thank you very much indeed.
> Would you possibly know such a web site using a CGI front-end to get at
> database records by URL ?
>
> Many thanks and best regards from Paris.
>
> Patrick
Well, I know from what's been discussed on this list that there are many
such sites out there, but I don't have any specific references. Maybe
someone else on the list can help you.
> **************
> > Will HTDIG be able to search data elements from a database such as SQL,
> > ACCESS, Oracle... etc ?
>
> htdig supports the use of external parsers and external converters, so you
> can index just about any file type if you have a filter that converts that
> file type to text or HTML. For example, the doc2html.pl external converter
> script can be used with pdftotext (part of the xpdf package) to index PDF
> files. It can also handle Excel and Powerpoint files, given the right
> filters. Its documentation tells you where you can find these filters, and
> the program can be easily modified to add new filters as well.
>
> However, indexing is still keyed on URLs, and search results return URLs,
> so ultimately, whatever you index needs to be accessible in this way.
> htdig is not a general database searching tool. For that, you're often
> better off using a CGI front-end that queries the database using SQL
> search queries. If you really want to use htdig for this job, you can do
> this if you have a CGI front-end to your database that allows you to get
> at database records by URL.
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