Re: electronic-izing unicode texts

A. Cropi wrote:
> my objectives: (1) allow users to make query through the web (i guess
> i will do this via PHP interacting with the postgresql)
>
> my questions are: (1) is it reasonable to put the bookcontent into the
> CONTENT column? (2) the content of the book can be very long (some of
> them have nearly 1 milloin words), so, what kind of considerations
> should i be making? (3) how should i design something like this? there
> must be someone outthere that has done somethign similar to this.. if
> so, please share your experiences.

You might be better off with a web-indexing package.
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=web+indexing&section=projects

Since you're not structuring the content of the book, most of the
advantages of a RDBMS don't apply. If you're going to treat it as text,
just use one of the text indexing systems above.

I would convert each book into one or more web-pages (perhaps one page
per section/chapter) and then use htdig or swish.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd