I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of TextIndexNG V 1.0. TextIndexNG is a pluggable index for the ZCatalog that enhances the full text indexing capabilities of Zope by providing the following features: * support for document converters (HTML, PDF, WinWord, PowerPoint, Postscript). Custom converters can be easily added * stemmer support for 12 languages * optional support for right truncation * similarity search (soundex, metaphone support) (for english) * NEAR search * phrase search * pluggable query parsers (two parsers included) * stop words support * new test tab for interactive testing * 2-3 times faster than Zopes TextIndex (more to come ;-) ) * compatible with ASCII, ISO-8859-1 Requirements: * Zope 2.5 or Zope CVS trunk checkout Documentation: * http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/wiki Download: * http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/ Installation: * The installation is described in the Wiki (see above) Changes sind alpha 1: * complete Registry implementation rewritten. Interfaces for pluggable components are strictly enforced. * every pluggable component resides now in a registry * broken similarity search fixed * additional options for interactiveDemo.py * integrated Matt Hamiltons compressed lists code * changed license of TextIndexNG to ZPL * the queryparser extension module should now build out-of-the-box at least on all Unix plattforms (flex, bison required). * minor code cleanup and speedup in the extension modules Contact: * Andreas Jung, Email: andreas at andreas-jung.com