[Zope] Indexing and Searching through XML files

[Tino Wildenhain]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> FNk wrote at 2003-9-11 10:23 +0200:
>  > I got lots of XML-files(about 100.000) in a directory tree on my file
>  > system. I want to publish those files using Zope/Plone.
>  > 
>  > I need to be able to index them in their native format without having to
>  > upload them in the ZODB, let users search their contents through zope, and
>  > have the result displayed.
>  > 
>  > Is it possible? Did anybody ever do this? Any suggestions? 
> 
> You use an external search engine and interface it with Zope.
> Chris Withers used JPE (Java Python Environment) and a standard
> Open Source Java search engine (from the Apache project) to do something
> like this.
> 
> You search Zope.org for a HowTo about ZCatalog indexing of
> objects not inside Zope, something like "ZCatalog Everything".
> 
> 
> I would go for the "external search engine" approach, especially
> when your files were large.

I bet http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/cataloganything
is a more easy approach for this.
A simple set up external method or
a script which ZEO-mounts ZODB
and does the cataloguing
should do the trick.
I dont believe external Java monster apps
will run much faster ;)

Regards
Tino