Hello, As far as I can tell, you can do basic pattern matching with the XPath support in Xindice. You can search with an XPath query something like:
//[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<insert variable>"] I've been thinking about implementing searching in my own application, and I was wondering what people thought about Lucene and synergies with Xindice: http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html I'm just brainstorming, but couldn't you create some type of translator to associate an XML document in Xindice with a Document in Lucene? When a search returns certain documents, grab it from Xindice using a unique message_id associated with every document. Xindice then provides the transaction integrity, security, and fast lookup, while Lucene could be used just for more advanced indexing. Some type of wrapper would be probably required to keep the documents synchronized (this could become a big headache, not sure). The XPath support in Xindice could help to limit the scope of queries into the Lucene index as negative clauses. In my case, for example, I would return an XPath query for a particular type of document (contact, message, transcript, sphere, etc.), and then use that sub-set to query the index. Another option for searching, which someone already mentioned, would be to use some regex libraries to augment XPath. I recommend Jakarta ORO, but I haven't done a thorough evaluation of all the ones out there, simply because it suits my needs quite well. Still, you're better off using a search "library" if you can, simply because of all the factors you'll want to consider, such as word proximity, frequency of repetition, stop words, etc. which will give you the "rank" you're talking about. David On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Cédric Viaud wrote: > > Hi, > > In fact, with XPath, you can search for node values and search for a > particular pattern in it. You are not limited to attributes values. > But i don't think this kind of retrieval will be very fast. > > This also may be not very efficient as you can't search for regular > expressions in the content (i'am almost sure, be it should better be > checked). > > Regards, > > Cédric > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: C F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:42 PM > To: xindice-users@xml.apache.org > Subject: RE: Should I Use Xindice for web-searchable XML Docs? > > > Thanks Bob, > > Yes, that does help a lot as far as my concerns about performance. > I'd also like some feedback on just the overall idea of what I want to > do with xindice. Has anyone used it as kind of a 'search engine' like > I'm talking about? Is the XPath support in Xindice fairly robust? > I'm not sure yet whether or not it's an absolute requirement, but it > seems like it would be pretty difficult to be able to *rank* search > results.... anybody done anything like this with Xindice?
