clintonG wrote:
> Putting the search textbox on the page is the easy part. What's preferred
> way to find terms in XML files located on the file system?
> Like finding stuff saved in XML files some of the blogs use these days to
> store their blog items? There can be lots and lots and lots of XML files on
> the file system to search.

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <some@body.com> wrote in message
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> clintonG wrote:
>> Putting the search textbox on the page is the easy part. What's preferred
>> way to find terms in XML files located on the file system?
>> Like finding stuff saved in XML files some of the blogs use these days to
>> store their blog items? There can be lots and lots and lots of XML files
>> on the file system to search.
>
> Naive implementation: parse each file in a turn and search in it.
> Better one: implement your own indexing engine or use XML indexing engine
> such as Lucene or use XML-enabled database such as SQL Server 2005 to
> store your XML documents.
>
>
> --
> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
> http://www.tkachenko.com/blog | http://www.XmlLab.Net

"Oleg Tkachenko" <foo@dummy.com> wrote in message
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> clintonG wrote:
>> "Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <some@body.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23l24%23kUGIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> clintonG wrote:
>>>> Putting the search textbox on the page is the easy part. What's
>>>> preferred way to find terms in XML files located on the file system?
>>>> Like finding stuff saved in XML files some of the blogs use these days
>>>> to store their blog items? There can be lots and lots and lots of XML
>>>> files on the file system to search.
>>> Naive implementation: parse each file in a turn and search in it.
>>> Better one: implement your own indexing engine or use XML indexing
>>> engine such as Lucene or use XML-enabled database such as SQL Server
>>> 2005 to store your XML documents.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
>>> http://www.tkachenko.com/blog | http://www.XmlLab.Net
>>
>> That's cool thanks. Let me confirm what you're saying, I can keep the
>> files in the file system for reasons that are good to do so but I should
>> save a redundant copy as XML in SQL Server which can be used for search
>> then? If that's the way to work it out that's fine with me.
>
> What is the best solution depends on a type of search you need, size and
> type of XML documents etc. SQL Server is great choice, but data
> duplication is bad as requires additional efforts to have XML data in
> sync. I'd check Lucene too. RSS Bandit is using it to search in feeds and
> seems to be pretty fast.
>
> --
> oleg

clintonG wrote:
> "Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <some@body.com> wrote in message
> news:%23l24%23kUGIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> clintonG wrote:
>>> Putting the search textbox on the page is the easy part. What's preferred
>>> way to find terms in XML files located on the file system?
>>> Like finding stuff saved in XML files some of the blogs use these days to
>>> store their blog items? There can be lots and lots and lots of XML files
>>> on the file system to search.
>> Naive implementation: parse each file in a turn and search in it.
>> Better one: implement your own indexing engine or use XML indexing engine
>> such as Lucene or use XML-enabled database such as SQL Server 2005 to
>> store your XML documents.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
>> http://www.tkachenko.com/blog | http://www.XmlLab.Net
>
> That's cool thanks. Let me confirm what you're saying, I can keep the files
> in the file system for reasons that are good to do so but I should save a
> redundant copy as XML in SQL Server which can be used for search then? If
> that's the way to work it out that's fine with me.