RE: xsl search engine

Hi,

> > Ok I understood what I didn't understood before, I'm trying 
> to make it good
> > and I write back either the solution I found or maybe other 
> problems I
> > encountered
> > indeed I encountered other problems :
> > - In the recursive template, there's a problem at the last 
> loop cause
> > substring-before the space is empty, but I found a solution

Oh yeah, forgot about that cause I didn't test the code I sent you. Sorry.

> > - there's also the problem of double matched THEME, because 
> they have many
> > correspondings strings in label attribute
> > - How to highlight the searched string while displaying the 
> label attribute
> > of the THEME elements matched.

Do you mean how to highlight the query tokens in the label? Recursive templates again, though it becomes harder if multiple query token match a single label and if they overlap.

> > So I'm working on it (it's about to be over) and come back 
> in a while...
> > 
> 
> I originally went this route some time ago. I have since used Jakarta 
> Lucene to index XML putting content and certain elems/attrs 
> into fields. 
> It is very fast to index and search. If you are using java, I would 
> suggest using lucene. They have some examples of how to do this (it's 
> not hard).

I second Robert's suggestion—Lucene's a good tool and might make your life a lot easier in the long run.

Cheers,

Jarno - KiEw: DCDisk (Rotersand vintage rework)

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