[Zope] using ZCatalog to search multiple data containers

[Martijn Pieters]

At 05:51 24/08/99 , Jay, Dylan wrote:
>Something that has been bothering me with this whole ZCatalog thing is how
>do I search things other than the Zope ODB. More importantly how do I
>combine a search that works with the ZCatalog with things from databases.
>Lets say I have a database driven FAQ. How do I put a single search field on
>a site that finds normal DTML documents as well as parts of the FAQ?

ZCatalog indexes both attributes and the results of methods. You could 
design a ZClass that would return database results to index.

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