The Javascript Offline Search library looks
interesting. I hope you submit your changes adding utf-8 support back to
the project. I would be interested in using it as part of a "webhelp for
docbook" thing I've started putting together. I've used a indexer from the
htmlsearch plugin from the DITA project which sounds similar to the JS Offline
Search library, but is less formally supported as a project (i.e. there's no
project page...it's just a zip file available from the files page of the DITA
yahoogroup).
I've posted the webhelp for docbook thing here: http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/docbook-webhelp/index.html
This should provide the original poster with enough to get started for
generating webhelp-like output from DocBook and could be used pretty much as-is.
As I mention in that link, the support for Asian
languages is limited due to the fact that the indexer depends on spaces and
punctuation to identify words. Since Japanese lacks spaces between words and has
little punctuation, I've customized the xsls to add indexterms to the list of
keywords. So if you use copious keywords and indexterms, at lest some searchs
will return at least results for Japanese content. Perhaps this is good enough
for some people.
David
From: Skopik Pavel
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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008
2:13 AM
To: BG;
Subject:
RE: [docbook-apps] search engine with docbook
Hello,
in or webhelp we have
been using Javascript Offline Search library for some time (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsofflinesearch/)
with success. You can have a look here how it works: http://www.aipsafe.cz/files/tutorial/index.html.
It is a java library
which indexes set of html files and builds a javascript index. It has some
nice features – you can use boolean operators or search for phrase. More
importantly it also implementes basic stemming. The only issue is that it does not
support other characters then basic ascii, so we had to alter the code to be
able to index character with diacritics and ouput index files in
UTF-8.
No packages have been
released yet, but you can donwload it from svn and compile it yourself. It is
then easy to automate the indexing process for example using ant. The only
thing you have to do is to generate a xml file with list of all resulting html
files to index which is then passed to the java library. This can be done in
your customization layer during docbook source files
processing.
If you are interested
I can prepare a package (basicaly xslt template for generating files to index)
to share with the DocBook
community and some thorough usage info.
Greetings,
Pavel
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Message-----
From: BG
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Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:49
PM
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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