I recently adapted the htmlsearch plugin for DITA to use
with our DocBook system. Basically htmlsearch a java indexer and some JavaScript
goo. It works ok with some limitations. For example, there's no stemming (if you
search for "started" you will get no hits for pages that contain only "start"
and vice versa) and for Asian languages I'm going to have to adapt it so that it
only searches meta keyword tags (and then beef up the meta keyword tags so they
contain keywords and any indexterms). The problem is that the simple indexer
looks for spaces and punctuation to figure out what a word is. Japanese has no
spaces between words and little punctuation.
I do hope to share this work with the DocBook community
(the htmlsearch plugin has a BSD-style license), but I'm not sure when I'll have
time to pull it out of our build system and put it into a format someone else
could use.
Depending on your situation, you could also generate
Ecilpse doc plugins and set up an Eclipse infocenter (which uses Lucene
internally). Or like Scot suggests, generate a chm from DocBook, open the
htmlhelp.hhp file in RoboHELP, and generate WebHelp from that.
David
From: Marvin, Scot [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:16 AM
To: BG;
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] search
engine with docbook
Hey
BG:
What
I’ve done in the past is generated the HTML and then used the HTML in a help
application tool (HAT), like Flare or RoboHelp.
If
you’re programmatically-inclined, you could generate a HAT-like output with
DocBook and then add the Lucene search engine to it. More info at
http://lucene.apache.org/.
Or,
there’s the old stand-by: generate one long page and use the browser’s search
feature. It’s yucky, but functional.
That’s
all the ideas I have right now.
-Scot
From:
BG [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008
6:49 AM
To:
Subject:
[docbook-apps] search engine with docbook
Hi,
I realize
an online help (html) with docbook and I would like to integrate a search
engine.
Are there solutions to integrate a search engine with
docbook?
Moreover I am a little amazed because having a search engine
in an online help is very common, nevertheless I don't find many solutions on
the subject.
Thank you,
BG
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