[ZDP] Documentation in text form?

[jiva@devware.com]

This is a *severe* drawback to using such things then since the vast
majority of zope tags start with <dtml-[something] so if I am a new
user who just started using zope, and I can't seem to grasp say,
dtml-in very well, if I go do a search, I get squat!  *This* is why
zope has a rep for having bad docs!  The idea should be, you go to the 
zope home page, type in dtml-in or dtml-sqlvar or something, and you
get everything (including the documentation pages on those tags).

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:12:45PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> 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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