On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:43:37PM +0200, Axel Boldt wrote:
I was thinking about creating a static HTML tree from the database dump. The only thing I can't figure out is how to provide a decent search function. Are there any ready-made solutions for this problem?
The possibilities I see are
- ship a minimal web server, and use some sort of htdig cgi search script.
- hack together some javascript code which doesn't need a server. (Something like this exists already at http://www.javascript.freeuk.com/oldindex.html, but they recommend it only for "up to 50 pages")
- Use some format other than HTML which provides search capabilities, such as MS help files or pdf.
I don't like either option.
There is a Java-Module (or component or whatever java-people call it) named Lucene. It provides a general indexing and search engine. It is normaly used server-side, but it should be possible to make a small java applet loading the index from CDROM.
Regards,
JeLuF