Stefan Guericke wrote:
You can build an application for full-text retrieval for external files with TextIndexNG and ExternalFile.
what do u think of writing his own application which stores different content type depending on the file type. id3 tag for mp3s, <title> and <bod>...</body> for html etc. implementing the indexing procedure in c++. the results could be saved in several tables in a mysql database. because the querys would be not too complicated the speed of the querys might be acceptable.
searching the index could be done by executing ZSQL methods.
what do u think about this idea?
Please keep the discussion on the list... Your idea sounds for me like: Why do you want to use Zope if you want to invent the wheel on your own? ZCatalog/TextIndexNG are well tested and do their job very well... There's no need to invent your own c++-indexer, if you do it the "zopish" way. Maybe you should have a look at MNOGoSearch and something like this non-zope-stuff for full-text-retrieval out there... -mj