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NAME

SWISH::Prog::Xapian - Swish3 Xapian backend

SYNOPSIS

# create an indexing program
use SWISH::Prog;
my $indexer = SWISH::Prog->new(
   invindex   => 'path/to/index.swish',
   aggregator => 'fs',
   indexer    => 'xapian',
   config     => 'path/to/swish.conf',
);

$indexer->index('path/to/files');

# then search the index
my $searcher = SWISH::Prog::Xapian::Searcher->new(
   invindex => 'path/to/index.swish',
   config   => 'path/to/swish.conf',
);
my $results = $searcher->search('my query')
while ( my $result = $results->next ) {
   printf("%s : %s\n", $result->score, $result->uri);
}

DESCRIPTION

STOP: Read the SWISH::Prog documentation before you use this module.

SWISH::Prog::Xapian is a Xapian-based implementation of Swish3, using the SWISH::3 bindings for libswish3.

See the Swish3 development site at http://dev.swish-e.org/wiki/swish3

Why Not Use Search::Xapian Directly?

You can use Search::Xapian directly. Using Search::Xapian via SWISH::Prog::Xapian offers a few advantages:

Aggregators and Filters

You get to use all of SWISH::Prog's Aggregators and SWISH::Filter support. So you can easily index all kinds of file formats (email, .txt, .html, .xml, .pdf, .doc, .xls, etc) without writing your own parser.

SWISH::3

SWISH::3 offers fast and robust XML and HTML parsers with an extensible configuration system, build on top of libxml2.

Simple now, complex later

You can index your content with SWISH::Prog::Xapian, then build a more complex searching application directly with Search::Xapian.

Compatibility with swish_xapian

The swish_xapian tool that comes as part of libswish3 should generate compatible indexes. So you can create indexes with SWISH::Prog::Xapian::Indexer and search them with swish_xapian and vice versa.

AUTHOR

Peter Karman, <karman at cpan dot org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-swish-prog-xapian at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=SWISH-Prog-Xapian. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc SWISH::Prog::Xapian

You can also look for information at:

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Peter Karman, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

SWISH::Prog, Search::Xapian