RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-04 Thread Tres Seaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like the idea of extending OFS:File to support different file types, but what I would like to see is something that is format/filter/library agnostic. Please have a look at the Hookable PUT proposal (which has already been implemented for 2.3):

RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-03 Thread sean . upton
k that this idea has potential as a project, and would be willing to contribute. Sean -Original Message- From: Bjorn Stabell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents? This

Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-03 Thread Jonothan Farr
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:25 AM Subject: RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents? I really like the idea of extending OFS:File to support different file types, but what I would like to see is something that is format/filter/library

RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread sean . upton
I've been thinking about doing this. I wonder if there are any C filter libraries that read word docs. The word 2000 docs are supposedly non-binary, so you could proabaly write a parser of sorts in python or C/Lex; I used to write text filters in C and Lex for my previous employer - one of these

Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread Jonothan Farr
I used to write text filters in C and Lex for my previous employer - one of these days I will figure out how to extend python with C and do this. Here's one that's written entirely in Python: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/ I've seen a couple of other implementations out

Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread Phil Harris
Alex, If your running Zope on Win32 you could use COM to snatch the text fairly easily and quickly. The COM interface to Word is well documented in the help files (if they're not installed, you'll find them on the CD). I used this technique to create XML from Word in the past and it works

RE: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread sean . upton
management would be great; I'm wondering if anyone is working on anything like this? Sean -Original Message- From: Jonothan Farr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word