Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
Zope's solution offer only benefit over the competition: -) it's more flexible (because Zope is dynamic). Nobody considers using a search engine on it's website to provide navigation. -) with the right kind of objects (and plain OFS objects are not really useable for content) Catalog are never stale, because they are autoupdated. -) it's builtin and it's fast. -) it can do quite expressive searches, because it's more than just a full text database.
-) It opens the possibility for the objects (documents) to offer the data to be cataloged independend from the presentation - as opposed to search engines like htdig etc. Filtering out html/wml/xml/pdf/... markup doesn't belong to the indexing engine IMHO, the object itself knows best how its content should be indexed. cheers, oliver