[Zope] TextIndexNG and ExtFile

[Michael Vartanyan]

> I've got a site with a couple hundred ExtFile objects. I now need to 
> index the content of the various files (word, pdf, excel, ppt). I see 
> that ExtFile doesn't have a PrincipiaSearchSource method so I created 
> one. It returns self.index_html(). When I go back into my catalog and 
> reindex my PrincipiaSearchSource index (a textindexng index), clicking 
> the "Reindex" button opens the ExtFile I'm trying to index. Is there 
> something more to the process of trying to index ExtFiles with 
> TextIndexNG. I've googled around and tried a few things but either 
> they don't work or I get the same results I've just described. Any ideas?

this is what was discussed here:

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2006-March/165803.html
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2006-April/165924.html


and a number of times before. Looks like someone needs to really look at 
this. I will try to do that over the weekend, if nothing works... well, 
my 19k ExtFiles will have to turn into Chris' blobs :-)