[Zope] Indexing files

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 21 Jan 2006, at 13:02, Sune Christiansen wrote:

> Hei All.
>
> I have the following problem:
> I am building up a ZCatalog and indexing my DTML methods. I use the  
> index
> type ZCTextIndex and the object function PrincipiaSearchSource. It  
> works
> fine.
> But when I try to index my Files (type File) with index type  
> ZCTextIndex
> and the object function SearchableText it finds no words and the  
> index is
> empty. Am I using the wrong object function?

Zope File objects do not support indexing their textual content. You  
will need to implement your own text retrieval or use some of the  
other indices out there like Andreas Jung's  TextIndexNG which come  
with suitable modules that can pull text out of various file formats.

jens