[Xapian-discuss] Seek help with simple writer/search using Perl

[Jeff Anderson]

On 4/11/07, xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org
<xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org> wrote:

> Message: 1
> From: James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org>
> The best we have at the moment is the quickstart guide. The main
> problem is that it assumes you want to build things in C++, and so
> spends quite a lot of time doing things that are unnecessary or easier
> in other languages. Nonetheless I would strongly recommend reading it
> to get an understanding of documents, postings, document data and
> queries. (Values are less commonly used, and so I believe are not
> covered.)

> Message: 2

> I'd generally recommend JSON in most cases, particularly for getting
> started. It has great support across a very wide range of languages,
> and can transport more conveniently than XML (particularly, NULs).

Thanks James. I understand the need to keep things flexible, but not
providing a mechanism to store key/value data introduces its own kind
of inflexibility by adding a dependency to some 3rd party storage
device. I find that a very strange requirement of a storage device --
to require further storage devices to store your stuff. But to each
his own i suppose. (But is that Edgar F. Codd i hear rolling in his
grave?). As for the documentation (which i did read before asking my
first question) ... documentation is as documentation does ...

Thanks for the help again, we decided to switch to Kinosearch so i
apologize for wasting everyone's time here.

-- 
jeffa