I am pleased to announce the first release candidate 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 * 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 since alpha 2: * added new PyQueryParser (implements the same query syntax as QueryParser but it is a native Python implementation that will run on all platforms and does no longer require flex/bison). The benefits are locale support and unicode support on the parser level. * deprecated and removed QueryParser module * fixed memory leak in C extension for lexicons * added support for right trunctation to CLLexicon * right truncation is now always enabled (Lexicons are now using BTrees only instead of optimal dictionaries for better performance) Contact: * Andreas Jung, Email: andreas at andreas-jung.com