RE: Searching a group of xml documents

Hi,

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> Hi all,
> 
> I need to search a repository/directory of xml documents. I want to search
> each xml document for the contents of a tag called <identifier>.  The
> contents of the tag would be as follows:
> 
> <identifier>Perl for Beginners</identifier>
> 
> When a match is found I want to display the contents of the <location> tag
> in the selected document to the screen which would be a URL e.g.
> <location>http://www.sometag.asp</location>
> 
> I know how to search one document and retrieve the data from it but need
> help with more than one.
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I would look at Jakarta Lucene for this purpose. Following is a brief
overview, since doing it this way is off-topic for the xsl-list.

You create an index by passing your content through a ContentHandler. Each
time you come across the desired elements you add the content as Field to
the document's indexed instance. 

After indexing your content you can run a query against it to get back a
List of Hits. You iterate through the Hits to get each Lucene Document
instance and then get the value of the Fields you identified in the
ContentHandler.

Best,
-Rob



> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Brenda



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