XML Search

Welcome to Cocoon XML Search. This page introduces Cocoon searching and offers the following samples:

• Creating a Lucene index to enable searching
• Searching through a once created Lucene index using various means:
• Searching a Lucene index using XSP
• Searching a Lucene index using SearchGenerator

Creating an Index

You must create a Lucene index first, before you can do the searching. Create an index by specifying a base url from which to start crawling (the indexer will follow the links to build its content). The base url should be cocoon-view aware of content-labels links, and content. For example you might use the base URL http://localhost:8888/docs/index.html

This following page allows you to create an index.

Searching

Enter a query and search the Lucene index that you have created - using XSP.

Enter a query and search the Lucene index that you have created - using Cocoon Generators.

Internals

Cocoon XML search uses the Jakarta Lucene indexing and search engine. The Cocoon documentation explains how it is implemented within Cocoon. Look behind the scenes of this example to find out more.