Thanks to Itamar Shtull-Trauring and his friends at @Table, Zope now has several new ZCatalog enhancements. 1) Partial Searching ZCatalog now supports the ability to work with globbing searching on text indexes. This means that queries like "z*", "zop? AND *cool", "digi* c?eations" are now possible. 2) Vocabulary objects Vocabulary objects encapsulate all the langauge specific features of ZCatalog into a seperate object. For now, there is still primarily english-centric support, but in the near future it will be very easy to extend vocabulary objects to support specific (or generic) language features. Future improvements to vocabulary objects include stop-word managment, stemming rules, and better control over word splitting. 3) Vocabulary-Catalog interoperation Catalogs require Vocabulary objects now. When you create a Catalog, the Catalog looks 'up' (like ZSQLMethods) for a Vocabulary object to use. If you do not specify a vocabulary object, the Catalog will create it's own private one. Using this model, you can have, for example, 'French' and 'English' vocabulary objects that are used by different catalogs depending on what language you want that catalog to work with. This is now checked into the Zope CVS, I'd really like some people to kick the tires on this one. As usual, please submit bugs to the Collector. -Michel