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[Charlie Hull]

Charlie Hull wrote:
> Maxim Zakharov wrote:
>> But last time I saw it, it was in C++, isn't ?
>>
>> On 8/9/07, Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net> wrote:
>>> Or try Xapian (www.xapian.org), which scales very well, and has bindings
>>> from lots of different languages.
>>>
> 
> Yes, but Aerik was playing with something from Zend, which is PHP, so I 
> figured that something he could access from PHP would be useful.
> 
> Actually I think a colleague of mine may well have written a Xapian 
> indexer for Mediawiki (at least he's done it for a dump of Wikipedia), 
> I'll check.
> 
Turns out it's an indexer for a XML dump of Wikipedia only; however if 
anyone might find this useful it's at:
http://flaxcode.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libs/secore/perftest/
(you'll need the rest of secore as well, this is a Python wrapper around 
Xapian).

C