On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Upayavira wrote: > David Swearingen wrote: > > > Thanks, Joerg. So I read up on Xindice last night. Are people using > > Xindice for production sites yet, or is it still in alpha? > > I know of people using XIndice in production. It is currently Beta, but > we might expect a formal release at some point in the next three-six > months or so (but don't quote me - my information is a bit out of date!)
There is also eXist, which has become extremely good over the last few months, especially with regard to XQuery support. -James > > Regards, Upayavira > > > */Joerg Heinicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > > > On 23.04.2004 02:18, David Swearingen wrote: > > > > > I picked Cocoon as my platform in part because of the elegance and > > > simplicity of keeping content in xml files in a directory(s) where I > > > can see them, and so I can have ad hoc document structures without > > > having to be tied down to a RDBMS schema that can never match > > all the > > > content types I'll be publishing. So I think for simplicity's sake > > > here assume I have a directory with a thousand xml files of textual > > > content, say, news articles. > > > > > So any given portal object needs at some point to be able to > > query my > > > repository for a few titles that meet a few criteria. That's easy in > > > SQL of course -- but how do I do something like that in the > > > XML/Cocoon world? > > > > > > Do I index? Do I scour through once and then cache for a few hours? > > > D o I have a separate procedural/Java process that creates > > > intermediate files that can be more rapidly transformed into > > headline > > > lists? I can imagine different general approaches, but I don't know > > > how to implement with the Cocoon toolset, and I'm sure I'm not the > > > first person to have this requirement. > > > > A hand-written solution using DirectoryGenerator might be to slow if > > there are really thousands of files. Though you can cache its output, > > every non-cached access would probably take many seconds. > > > > More appropriate seems to be the indexing using Lucene, but I > > don't how > > flexible it is with regard to your needs (latest 3, first sentence, > > etc.). And the more stuff you have to store the more I would tend > > to an > > XML database like XIndice. > > > > All components are delivered with a recent Cocoon. > > > > Joerg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at ota dot ahds dot ac dot uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
