RXML, categories, and search

[Christopher Howard]

Hi. My department is doing a redesign of our Web site, which uses Roxen. 
(The Roxen back-end system is set up and maintained by our university). 
My department heads are looking to me and asking if it is possible to 
create a Knowledge Base (a collection of organized and ideally 
searchable articles) using only the tools Roxen provides.

With research (I'm no Roxen guru) I discovered it was possible to create 
something like a KB using Roxen's category system, along with RXML that 
manipulates and displays the nodes. But I'm wondering how far I can go 
with that, especially regarding the "search" aspect. I'm thinking it 
probably wouldn't be too difficult to create a search form, and then use 
RXML to filter category and article nodes, but I'm not quite sure. This 
wouldn't be able to search actual article content, I suppose - only 
category and article names, which would not be quite as helpful. 
Instantaneous search results would also be great, but I imagine that 
would require AJAX and make this quite a bit more complicated.

Anyway, if anyone has any useful insight I would be appreciative.
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