Re: module for XML databases

Alexander Merz wrote:

Richard Samar wrote:

1) where should the modules go? My preference is XDB_Xindice

I already take a fast look on Xindice, because i have the idea to provide a full text search for the manual using a XML-database, instead of searching over html files - after the transformation from docbook to html, you lost a lot of meta information. Do you think, it makes sense to spend some time to get such a system running?

If you are familiar with XPath and XUpdate and a little bit with setting up Java-based programs you might be able to install it withtin 10min. Using it for documentation is a good idea. You'd have to take care your XML files are not much bigger than 1 or 2 MB otherwise you might experience bad performance. Full text search is something I had used with Tamino. I neither now if is will be working in a way you want it with Xindice nor if the performance is satisfactory. Tamino extends XPath by some prop. operators to make an effiencent way of full-text search and has additional fulltext-indexers which Xindice imho does not have. -moh