Re: Extending the Gnome search capabilities to be able to search in OOo files

["Curtis C. Hovey" <sinzui cox net>]

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 08:34, Tino Rachui wrote: 
> I would like to extend the Gnome search capabilities to be able to 
> search in OpenOffice.org files.
> Are the search capabilities of Gnome extensible and if yes is there any 
> documentation, sample code,
> or other help that brings me a step forward?
> Any help highly appreciated.

The would be a challenging task for gnome-search-tool, it just a GUI for
find and grep.

Medusa needs a new content indexer architecture, oo.o is a high priority
for indexing.  I cannot say Medusa will get this feature soon since I
believe incremental indexing must be added and the database replaced.

I am envisioning a plugable architecture that constructs a pipeline for
extracting and manufacturing metadata.  OO.o files would be process in
something like this:

src=my.swx > posix-extractor > mime-typer > 
zip > src=content.xml > markup > text-summarizer
   \
    > src=meta.xml > markup > office-meta

Medusa indexes text/* mime-types now.  It usually takes no more than 2
seconds to list all files that match content or metadata.

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