Thoughts about FilterChm

["Miguel Cabrera" <mfcabrera gmail com>]

Hi every one!

Well, I finally  have enough time to  start working on updating the Chm filter, but i need some advice from the Beagle hackers. :)
Html filter is faster than before because it uses an event driver architecture rather that the DOM based approach. 
In theory that would allow to index all the Html files inside the Chm file (currently it only index index the topics file and the default page due processor use overhead). The code as is written inherits the behaviour of the Html filter, but rather than being a Html filter, Chm filter should use the html filter to index the text. the last time I saw the code of beagle this was not possible (I understood  that FSQ did not support Child Indexables [1][2]) .
I still can't use an Filter from another Filter?
On the other hand due to modifications made to source code of FilterHtml, I will have to copy (and modify some parts) of the FilterHtml, (then cutting the dependency) but that would be code repeating,  I don't like it :(  .

I really don't know how to proceed, help will vary appreciated.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319412
[2] Wouldn't it be a good SoC project the implementation of this feature?



Miguel Cabrera.