This is a reminder, as the mail was sent in the weekend! Please go through it and suggest me a solution.
Thanks in advance, /KasunBG On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe <kasu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I need to add a completely client-side search mechanism to a help system that > I'm implementing for a Google Summer of Code project for DocBook. I use an > Ant script to run xslts that generate html from DocBook XML. I can use a > Java indexer to index the html, but when performing the search, I need to > access the index via JavaScript. There is no way of invoking a Java code and > NO server-side calls can be used. This allows users to use the documentation > even through local filesystem without any problem. I do understand it's a > difficult requirement to achieve, but there is no other option. I'm willing > to code on low-level with use of Lucene API for this. > > My questions are: > > - Is there a way to build the index with a structure I define? Lucene > creates its index in a binary format, which I cannot access using > JavaScript. Therefore, I would have to edit Lucene backend classes to have > a > customized index in a plain text format. If this lets me benefit from > Lucene's many strengths (stemming, cjk support), It's well worth my time to > do it. So my question is: what java files do I need to edit? I see that the > IndexFiles class does the indexing. I need to find what specific classes > are > involved when writing out the index. > - I know that there is no JavaScript implementation available for > Lucene QueryParser (or if there's one, please let me know!). So which > classes should I study to reimplement them in JavaScript? > - Are there any other concerns regarding this approach? I'm not sure > that this will ultimately be feasible. I have about one month to do the > implementation, so I'm trying to determine if this approach is worth > persuing or if I should take another approach. > > Lucene is a great tool. I'm happy to contribute back whatever I can do in > making use of it. > > Thanks for any help you can give me to get me started in this. > > /KasunBG >