[Xapian-discuss] custom

[gervin23]

thanks for looking into this further. i'll give it a try.

andrew

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:31:40PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
>>What would be really neat is a client side solution - something like
>>a javascript based highlighter, but I don't know if javascript has
>>enough power to allow this.
> 
> 
> Javascript is capable of this:
> 
> http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/searchhi/
> 
> There are other similar examples on the web, but this one has the bonus
> of being explicitly licensed with a GPL compatible licence (it's under
> the MIT licence).
> 
> If you're using stemming, you'd ideally want the snowball stemmers in
> javascript, and to tokenise and stem the page text as you highlight.
> But that could result in the client-side highlighting being rather slow.
> Some experimentation is needed - for example, with many of the stemmers
> you only need try stemming if the first couple of characters of a word
> match one of the stemmed terms to be highlighted.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly