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> 1. Is using htdig with Frontpage 2003 possible? (Julia Richter)
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>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:55:37 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Julia Richter <jri...@sb...>
>To: htd...@li...
>Subject: [htdig-dev] Is using htdig with Frontpage 2003 possible?
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>Hi:
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>I have been trying to find a search engine that will
>return items and not pages. I built a website using
>Frontpage 2003 and is hosted on IIS. Do I need to get
>a host with a Linux server to use your product?
>
>The engine that came with Frontpage only returns
>pages.
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>I have over 5000 books in word tables on four pages.
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>Will yur search engine work for me?
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>Everyone I talk to has a different answer from make a
>database in Access to get Atom search for $10,000!
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>I would so appreciate any help.
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>Regards,
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>Julia
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>
Hello Julia,
Htdig is a 'solution' that has two components:
a) An indexing 'component' - Like a robot, it will follow documents
(usually accessed through the hypertext transfer protocol), boild them
down to their 'keywords', and store these keywords in a (Berkely DB)
Database for searching. Through the use of 'helper applicatiions' it
becomes possible to index non-html content (among other things: word files).
b) A search component, usually including a search form (html) and a
cgi-script returning (html-style) customizable result pages. This will
only require a web server (eg. IIS), and return its result pages
On the other hand, I am not completely clear:
- You have '5000 books as word documents' and want a web-based
full-text search over those documents? - First of all the Word Document
format is not ideal for searching (since its basically closed). Then
you'll have a set of 'results' (text passages), that you need to
transform these results (from the lcosed proprietary word format into
something a little more documented, like eg. PDF) and make them fit for
web display (forget PDF, requires a plugin and breaks the meaning of the
web).
Or do you have 4 pages with references (Books), written as a word
table?- If thats the case I'd convert them into a proper database,
allowing for a proper search - A task for a database engineer, nothing
to do with htdig. When you convert the database you should have an eye
to use open formats so a bit company from redmond does not dictate your
future choice of an operating system. - In that case you might want to
look at open databases like MySQL(http://www.mysql.com), and building a
search interface to the database eg. with php (http://www.php.net)
Or finally, do you have the full text of 5k books as word documents, and
want to search through that - doable with htdig, but I'd personally
prefer a more open format, like eg. DocBook...
So please elucidate us
Robert Ribnitz
Debian Maintainer of HT://Dig
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