Xapian discuss - Jun 2008 - Getting started with Xapian in Perl

Hello All ,

I'm starting up a project to build a search tool for an existing
application and would like to use Xapian to do it.  I'm having
trouble understanding the concepts of Xapian searching and
can't find much documentation for the Perl lib.  I would very
much appreciate a simple demo script that shows the way to
to do adding and searching so i can see how to get started.

Thanks

Toodle-pip
Amias

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On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:35:32PM +0100, Amias Channer wrote:
> I'm starting up a project to build a search tool for an existing
> application and would like to use Xapian to do it.  I'm having
> trouble understanding the concepts of Xapian searching and
> can't find much documentation for the Perl lib.  I would very
> much appreciate a simple demo script that shows the way to
> to do adding and searching so i can see how to get started.
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/2196> has
an example of indexing; the Perl bindings themselves come with an
example of searching, based on the simplesearch that is an example for
C++, Python and PHP.

<http://xapian.org/docs/overview> will also be helpful, as it explains
how Xapian works from the perspective of a developer using it.

J

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James Aylett wrote on 6/4/08 12:12 PM:
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/2196> has
> an example of indexing; the Perl bindings themselves come with an
> example of searching, based on the simplesearch that is an example for
> C++, Python and PHP.
> 
also: http://svn.swish-e.org/libswish3/trunk/perl/

has both searching and indexing examples.

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