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Posted to xindice-dev@xml.apache.org by Natalia Shilenkova <ns...@gmail.com> on 2007/07/09 20:35:58 UTC

Full text indexing

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? Is that still a
preferred way of indexing implementation?

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

Regards,
Natalia

Re: Full text indexing

Posted by Natalia Shilenkova <ns...@gmail.com>.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Natalia

On 7/9/07, Nacho Gonzalez Mac Dowell <na...@visual-ma.com> wrote:
> Hi all, sorry to step in suddenly... but recently I've been using
> Compass framework with excellent results. Compass has a framework called
> XSEM (Xml Search Engine Mapping) which makes a really nice abstraction
> for Lucene. Maybe this is not a convenient solution for Xindice, but, I
> believe it is worth a try!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nacho G. Mac Dowell

Re: Full text indexing

Posted by Nacho Gonzalez Mac Dowell <na...@visual-ma.com>.

Hi all, sorry to step in suddenly... but recently I've been using 
Compass framework with excellent results. Compass has a framework called 
XSEM (Xml Search Engine Mapping) which makes a really nice abstraction 
for Lucene. Maybe this is not a convenient solution for Xindice, but, I 
believe it is worth a try!

Best regards,

Nacho G. Mac Dowell

Vadim Gritsenko escribió:
> 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
>
>
>

Re: Full text indexing

Posted by Vadim Gritsenko <va...@reverycodes.com>.

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