Before anyone spends too much time reinventing the wheel on this, I suggest you read through these two threads, where enhanced meta tag support for 3.2.0 betas is discussed:
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=%5Bhtdig%5D+new+year%27s+thoughts&list=8822 http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=%5Bhtdig-dev%5D+Searchable+index+fields&list=8825 Jamie Anstice has already done some preliminary work on this, and it sounds like a reasonably place to start. I think the word indexing part of it needs more work, but a lot of what's needed is there. Unfortunately, we never did get patches from Jamie for this, but maybe a bit more coaxing would help. According to Brian White: > This is something I have actually wanted to do myself. > > I remember either Gilles or Geoff saying something > like the fact that it was a bit too open ended because > you weren't searching for a *particular* meta tag. > > So - maybe the way around this would be to add > a config capability to be able to specify in > what meta tags should be recorded as user > variables, up to a maximum of say 10. > > Something like: > > user_variable_1 : my_meta_tag_name_1 > user_variable_2 : my_meta_tag_name_2 > .... > > These values would all default to "none". htdig would > then only save the values it was asked to save. > > These could then be inserted in search results > as $(USER_VARIABLE_1) , $(USER_VARIABLE_2) etc > > Would this work? Seems incredibly clunky but > it would be a way to get some very handy > functionality in. > > Bria > > At 20:42 10/06/2002, Peter Porserud wrote: > >Hi! > > > >Is it possible to use own META-tags (for example AUTHOR) that are not > >recognized by htdig and display them in the results. If this requires > >rewriting some of the code I could do that if you gave me some pointers of > >where. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
