On 07/23/2008 10:49 AM, Janet Swisher wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thanks for your response!
> 
>  > Swish-e is probably not the best route if your requirements include 
> client-side
>  > only search + multiple architectures. I would instead look at some 
> pure Javascript
>  > solution.
> 
> I was thinking that that was what the patched-swish-e+jsFind combination 
> would give me. The patch enables swish-e to output the index as XML, 
> which is then all that jsFind (Javascript) needs to query. No need for 
> swish-e itself to be delivered at all.

Sorry, I needed to go back and look at how jsFind works. You are right; in theory, if you
could dump your Swish-e index as XML you could use jsFind with it.

The Swish-e developers discussed adding the XML dump feature to Swish-e. My mail archive
from 11/21/2004 suggests that David Norris was considering a patch to dump.c that would
add the -T index_xml feature. No idea if he got around to that.

Dave?


> Thanks for the link -- I'd hadn't found this resource. The hard part, 
> though, is coming up with the database to query. As the chapter says "If 
> your site has more than a few hundred web pages, you'll probably want to 
> have a server-side program generate the code containing all the 
> records." That is what I thought swish-e could help with.
> 

if Dave can't dig out the code he had, you could likely write something to parse the
output of swish-e -T index_all to create the XML you need.

-- 
Peter Karman  .  peter(at)not-real.peknet.com  .  http://peknet.com/

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