Dieter Maurer wrote:
FNk wrote at 2003-9-11 10:23 +0200:
I got lots of XML-files(about 100.000) in a directory tree on my file system. I want to publish those files using Zope/Plone.
I need to be able to index them in their native format without having to upload them in the ZODB, let users search their contents through zope, and have the result displayed.
Is it possible? Did anybody ever do this? Any suggestions?
You use an external search engine and interface it with Zope. Chris Withers used JPE (Java Python Environment) and a standard Open Source Java search engine (from the Apache project) to do something like this.
You search Zope.org for a HowTo about ZCatalog indexing of objects not inside Zope, something like "ZCatalog Everything".
I would go for the "external search engine" approach, especially when your files were large.
I bet http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/cataloganything is a more easy approach for this. A simple set up external method or a script which ZEO-mounts ZODB and does the cataloguing should do the trick. I dont believe external Java monster apps will run much faster ;) Regards Tino