Re: Thoughts about FilterChm

["Kevin Kubasik" <qub333 gmail com>]

it really seems like were gonna need to handle child indexables soon.
Do you think we should add this to the list of suggested projects for
SoC prospectives? (might generate alot more interest in implementing
it)

-Kevin Kubasik

On 4/22/06, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> > 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 :(  .
>
> Do you really need "Child-indexables" ? As you noted, HTML filter is
> now event-driven and all the logic is inside the HandleNodeEvent()
> method. I think you should be able to derive from FilterHtml, set up
> an event handler; on any event, if you need some regular html
> processing call HandleNodeEvent() otherwise handle it inside your
> custom event handler.
> Easier said than done and I am saying this with no clue how the
> chmfilter works :).
>
> Let me know if you need some help.
> - dBera
>
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Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik
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