You could use ZCatalog with the Local File System product to index your text files stored in the file system. http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS --jfarr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anselm Lingnau" <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: local.m2n.zope To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:54 AM Subject: [Zope] Making lots of external data searchable?

I'm using Zope to re-vamp a web site, one of whose most important features is an archive of a reasonably busy mailing list, which is accessed using home-grown Perl CGI code. I've written Python code to let users browse the archive sorted by users, subject etc., but now I'm looking at allowing text searches. The »old« instance of the web site used Glimpse and a simple CGI script (in Perl) to do this across the whole site (including the mail archive) and ideally this would be what I'm after for the new version as well.

However, the mail archive now weighs in at about 45 MB in individual text files (one per message), and I don't really see myself putting this into the ZODB so I can use ZCatalog. ZCatalog, however, looks good for indexing the rest of the site (I haven't done this yet). Is there a reasonable way of interfacing Glimpse with the Zope searching machinery so I could again have one-stop searching of the whole site? (It would probably be straightforward to search just the mail archive by calling out to Glimpse and massaging the results.)

Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de To those who doom Unix at the hands of NT, well, not this decade, pal. -- Ade Barkah

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