[Xapian-discuss] indexing and queryparsing: UTF-8 and PHP
Peter Karman
peter at peknet.com
Sat Feb 25 22:08:42 GMT 2006
tata 668 scribbled on 2/25/06 3:34 PM:
> I don't really know Swish-e but it seems more html and xml oriented. I
> NEVER index any html, xml or any kind of files. I only need to index
> information like "member description" that would require slow MySQL
> plain-text search without a dedicated library like Xapian.
>
Swish-e is often used to index databases like mysql. Rows are converted to
virtual XML, similar to how they are with Xapian's dbi tool.
db -> filter -> xml -> swish-e
just like Xapian:
db -> dbi2omega -> xapian
Exact same idea; different tools.
I'm not trying to sell you on Swish-e; Xapian is a great tool too. I'm just
pointing out the fact that the tools are used for similar purposes.
Here's an article I wrote on the subject of indexers. It compares Xapian,
Swish-e and Lucene. Each offer different strengths.
http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/manual/ch/ch17.html
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Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . peter at peknet.com
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