[Xapian-discuss] New to Xapian (coming from Lucene)

[Peter Karman]

Jeff Anderson scribbled on 4/13/07 11:48 AM:

> This is where Perl could be used to provide a more useful interface to
> Xapian. That is, someone (ahem :)) should write a CPAN module wrapper
> around Search::Xapian that provides a bridge.
> 

as it so happens, this is what Swish3 is attempting.

http://dev.swish-e.org/wiki/swish3
and
http://dev.swish-e.org/browser/libswish3/trunk/bindings/perl/lib/SWISH/3/Xapian/Indexer.pm

The issue of storing data with keys (as you discuss) has not yet been defined, 
but the eventual aim is to provide a common API for use with Xapian, KinoSearch, 
et al. Think of Swish3 as a kind of polyglot search tool.


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