Full Text Search for MS Word and Excel files?

[ryan]

Hi,
 
I would like to use the DASL features of Slide to search for text inside
of MS Word and Excel files.  A while back, I read a discussion on this
list about providing an extractor interface for this kind of feature
that could extract metadata and text and store it for later searches.
Can anyone say what the status of these features is?
 
If you do support the extractor concept or are planning to add it in the
near future, can anyone say how difficult it would be to write an
Extractor for MS Word and Excel and what the overall approach for
implementing an extractor will be like?
 
Thanks,
 
Ryan Rhodes