Re: search engine for the Guide
On Fri, 5 May 2000, w trillich wrote:
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> >
> > > Stas Bekman wrote:
> > > > So far, from the personal replies to me, htdig is the best solution given
> > > > that we stuff many anchors in the text so you could jump directly to the
> > > > right paragraph.
> > >
> > > can't we have a filter script that yanks the source html and
> > > then inserts anchors as necessary, before sending it to
> > > the browser?
> >
> > No need to have a script -- I can generate the html with anchors in first
> > place. Unless you are talking about matched text highlighting.
>
> that too.
>
> but if you're gonna filter the html to hilite search terms here
> and there, you can also have it inject an anchor where it needs one.
>
> then we could maybe list various 'matches on this page' in a frame to
> the left, and have it scroll the right frame around to find the
> target text...? (not that i'm a fan of frames, but no need to
> blindly avoid them at all costs, either...)
Why CC to debian-user? I thought we are on the modperl list... Oh, well...
If you are going to develop such an engine of course that's the way to do
it. I was talking about a ready made htdig engine, and all it's missing is
more anchors to have anchors located closer to the matched text.
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