[Xapian-discuss] indexing and queryparsing: UTF-8 and PHP

[tata 668]

Thanks for that nice article..

But since Swish-e doesn't support UTF-8, it won't help me more than Xapian!

Jules


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Karman" <peter at peknet.com>
To: "tata 668" <tata668 at gmail.com>; <xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] indexing and queryparsing: UTF-8 and PHP


>
> 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
>
>
> -- 
> Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter at peknet.com