On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:30:07PM -0700, Chris Little wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jan Paul Schmidt wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:18:18AM -0700, Chris Little wrote: > > > Expat looks good if we do need and can afford XML parsing. > > > > If you really think about adding XML parsing, consider libxml, too. It > > is lightweight and has a real fast implementation. But I would suggest a > > format which includes indexes of the words, so you could implement a > > real fast search through a text. But it does not look like Sword is > > going this way. > > We have this, we just don't use it yet. We will likely re-examine the > issue of fast indexed searches after all module data has been compressed.
You can combine indexing and compressing (if you mean with compressing to reduce size). jps
