Mark,
You mentioned 'contains' causing a search of the entire document.  Shouldn't
it just search the content of the part of the document picked out by the
rest of the XPath query?  I'm pretty sure I remember this from a quick
source code tour a few months ago.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Stang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: Text search with Xindice. XML from FrameMaker 7


> Eric,
> Tom Bradford is the one working on the full text indexer.   You will have
> to check with him to see what his time-frame is for delivery.   As far as
the
> "contains", it is part of the XPath Query.   Try:
>
>  http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html
>
> for a good introduction to XPath Queries.   Also, check out
> the W3C XPath definition.   My code is designed around
> attribute searching, not text.   Maybe someone has a sample, I
> don't know what is available in the docs.
>
> HTH,
> Mark
>
> Unknown wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> > Thanks for the reply. Would you know when the 'full text indexer' will
be
> > implimented? And, would you have any sample code for doing an XPath
query with
> > 'Contains'?
> > Thanks again,
> > Eric
> >
> > "Mark J. Stang" wrote:
> >
> > > Eric,
> > > Xindice would work, but the current version might be a bit slow.
There
> > > are plans for a full text indexer.   However, currently, you would
have to
> > > do an "XPath" query using "contains".   That will search, the entire
> > > document.   Probably not as fast as you would like.   Once the
> > > full text indexer comes out, then it should work fine.   It depends on
> > > your time frame.
> > >
> > > Xindice is well suited to returning individual Chapters and all the
> > > other items, if you break it up into the right set of documents and
> > > collections.   I haven't used FrameMakers' xml so, I don't know
> > > how it stores the documents.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > Eric Thoman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking at Xindice to store literary documents that will be
created
> > > > with FrameMaker 7.
> > > >
> > > > The user will enter keywords to search the entire text of the all of
the
> > > > xml documents and return individual Chapters with their titles, the
book
> > > > titles and the contents of the chapters.
> > > >
> > > > How well might Xindice work against a 4000 page literary work? And,
can
> > > > anyone
> > > > suggest a good approach? Sample code is always neat:)
> > > >
> > > > Last, if anyone has any comments about FrameMakers' xml ability
vis-a-vis
> > > > Xindice
> > > > I would be most appreciative.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Eric Thoman
>
>
>

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