Re: Full text indexing

Natalia Shilenkova wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am interested in adding full text indexing capability to Xindice,
> which is, by the way, one of the items on TODO list. The items refers
> to the scratchpad code, but there is not much, just couple of classes
> that were moved out of main codebase at some (rather distant) point.
> 
> However, mail list archive has several threads about that very same
> subject, with most interesting being 'Xindice full text indexing' [1]
> and 'Full text indexing patch' [2].
> 
> Does anyone remember why that effort was abandoned?

I think you'd have to ask Andy about that :)


> Is that still a
> preferred way of indexing implementation?

Yes, I think so, it has all necessary pieces for initial implementation: text 
search service, text indexer, text query resolver... More thought should be put 
into how it indexes (I do not remember what/how exactly this patch indexes...), 
what sort of fields it creates in Lucene index and such, but this can come later 
as further enhancements as soon as basics are taken care of.

And even next step after that would be to add full text XPath functions - most 
probably as extension functions.

Vadim

> [1] http://marc.info/?t=107721013100003&r=1&w=2
> [2] http://marc.info/?t=107900573100002&r=1&w=2
> 
> Regards,
> Natalia