[opencms-dev] Configuring which xmlcontent fields to search

[Paul-Inge Flakstad]

Hi Mario,

Thanks a lot for your reply, I wouldn't have thought of that myself. :)

You are suggesting to create a single searchable string, that is a concatenation of the elements I want to search, and use it as a substitute for the default extracted xmlcontent string, am I right?

I have a few concerns though:
1.) That property will, in some cases, contain a LOT of content. Is there any limit on the string length?
2.) Will I be able to map the repeating, nested "Paragraph" element properly? (It too contains other nested elements.)
3.) Since the "standard" field configuration would normally do just fine if I could only exclude an element or two, this seems like a lot of trouble to go through. (I have several xmlcontent resource types that would need this kind of handling.) I can't help but think that it would be easier to tell the xmlcontent's content extractor not to extract certain element values?

So what I'm wondering is: can I somehow define a certain element of an xmlcontent resource type as "non-indexable"? (Something like "search.exclude", where a file/folder is excluded, but instead an xmlcontent element would be excluded.)

Best regards,
Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Mario Jäger
> Sent: 27. april 2010 09:44
> To: The OpenCms mailing list
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Configuring which xmlcontent 
> fields to search
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> one possibility is that you map each of the elements 
> "PageTitle", "Intro" and "Paragraph" 
> with one property. In the WEB-INF/config/opencms-search.xml 
> you have to add in the section 
> <fieldconfigurations> the new fields for the index analogue 
> to the "description" field:
> 
> <field name="description" display="%(key.field.description)" 
> store="true" index="true">
>   <mapping type="property">Description</mapping>
> </field>
> 
> That you can add in an existing index and you can add that in 
> a new index which only uses 
> your specific XML contents.
> 
> ---
> Kind Regards,
> Mario.
>  
> -------------------
> Mario Jäger
>  
> Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts                    
> http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org
> 
> 
> Paul-Inge Flakstad schrieb:
> > Hi everyone,
> >  
> > I'm wondering if there's an easy way to configure which 
> fields of an 
> > xmlcontent file to index?
> >  
> > E.g. if the XSD contains these element definitions:
> >  
> > <xsd:sequence>
> >     <xsd:element name="PageTitle" type="OpenCmsString" />
> >     <xsd:element name="Extension" type="OpenCmsExtension" 
> > minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
> >     <xsd:element name="Intro" type="OpenCmsHtml" minOccurs="0" 
> > maxOccurs="1" />
> >     <xsd:element name="Paragraph" type="OpenCmsParagraph" 
> > minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
> > </xsd:sequence>
> >  
> > I don't want the "Extension" element to be searchable, but 
> I do want 
> > the rest of the fields searchable.
> >  
> > Is there a simple solution?
> >  
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> > 
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