At 11:55 AM -0400 4/28/99, Torsten Neuer wrote:
>Ht://Dig is a tool for searching a web-site - and it should stay that way.
I would agree wholeheartedly. Someone on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list said it
best when they said they liked how ht://Dig was in the spirit of most
traditional UNIX tools--flexible yet oriented towards a specific task.
>The latter would be the best approach since it leaves ht://Dig basically
>as it is now and eases the task of post-procesing htsearch results.
Yes. I was composing a response to this. Right now there's a Perl module
mostly oriented towards accessing the databases directly (for things like
the whatsnew script). I can imagine someone expanding that module or
perhaps writing up some shared PHP for helping with PHP wrappers.
I'm going to be revising the projects page on http://dev.htdig.org tonight.
I'll put that up as a possible project--writing some code that would be
helpful towards writing a wrapper.
There are a *lot* of things that would be nice to link in during searching
or digging. There's libwww, gnome-http, a UTF-8/Unicode library, xpdf, an
XML parser... I've been thinking about all this nice code out there that
would help ht://Dig. My conclusion has been to push for *some* inclusion
(e.g. glibc regex, strptime, mktime) while going towards more things like
external parsers.
Just my $0.02.
-Geoff
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