[ZDP] Documentation in text form?

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 24 May 2000 23:12:45 +0100


Thsi is because text indexes, not just ZCatalog, splti words on things
like - and / and so the things you mentioned won't be indexed in a lot
of things, including ZCatalog :(

Chris

jiva@devware.com wrote:
> 
> Just one additional case in point on this:
> 
> I just did a search on zope.org using the little search box, I typed
> in, very simply:
> 
> dtml-in
> 
> and I got NO results.
> 
> Now I have also taken the URL I got earlier with the how-tos links on
> them and imported them into a postgres database, I have done a search
> for the EXACT same thing, and I got back a page and a half of URLs.
> Now, one might say, "yeah, but how many of those are worth anything
> with such a generic query?" Well, frankly, I'd rather take my chances
> of finding the info I want in 100 links then with none.
> 
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Maik Roeder wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > jiva@devware.com wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:50:04PM +0200, Maik Roeder wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Only ZCatalog searches out of the ZODB.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think this may be the core of the problem.  I've never seen a
> > > zcatalog search that was worth crap.  Maybe I don't know how to phrase
> > > my queries, but my hope is, I type in a string, and if it appears
> > > anywhere in any of the documents, they'll appear.  Unfortunately, it
> > > doesn't work this way.
> >
> > Thanks for pointing this out ! I am also not happy with the search
> > facility on the ZDP site. I will work on this after the 29th of May,
> > because I have no time right now.
> >
> > Just tell me how you would the search to work, and I will work on
> > it later, if noone else would like to jump in.
> >
> > BTW: Our Zope hosting Provider (Codeit) does provide can provide
> > us with our own database on our MySQL server.  Maybe someone
> > can work on realizing the search via SQL ?
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Maik Röder
> 
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> 
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