Jeff, Yes, it would, that is why I pointed him at the XPath tutorial. The problem that he would have run into and that I ran into was that I wanted to search entire collections for a paticular word. That would have meant that I would have to look in practically every element. I decided to wait for Toms' enhancements.
Mark Jeff Greif wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
