[XML4Lib] creating dynamic indices with XML, XSLT, and IIS

[Roy Tennant]

An entirely different way to do this would be to use Swish-e to index your
documents and then create the index pages on the fly with a CGI program that
interfaces with the Swish-e index. This way, when you make any changes all
you need to do is reindex. See swish-e.org for the free code.
Roy


On 9/14/06 8:36 AM, "John Fitzgibbon" <jfitzgibbon at Galwaylibrary.ie> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have put a number of articles on the web. We have also generated
> three indices; one index is an index of place names, another is an index
> of personal names, and the third is a keyword index. Index entries are
> tagged in the document by use of the span element as follows
> 
> <span class="place"></span>
> <span class="person"></span>
> <span class="keyword"></span>
> 
> Each index consists of twenty six pages, one for each letter of the
> alphabet. For example, when a person goes to the main page of the place
> index, they can click on a letter. If he or she clicks on the letter P a
> page called subject_p.html is displayed. This displays a list of place
> names that begin with the letter P. Clicking on the place name brings up
> a page displaying the documents which contain that place name.
> 
> The problem is that when we add a new article we have to update 26 X 3
> documents. We need a more dynamic solution.
> 
> My idea is to place all the index terms in one large XML document. New
> terms are simply appended to this document. I know how to use XSLT to
> extract index terms from the HTML document that is being added and I
> know how to use XSLT to append them to the XML document.
> 
> I will then use XSLT to retrieve the index from the XML document. For
> example, when a person clicks on the letter P as before, a query string
> like ?index=place&letter=P will be passed to the server. The server will
> take this query string and pass two parameters to an XSLT document. The
> parameters will be
> 
> <xsl:with-param name="index">place</xsl:with-param>
> <xsl:with-param name="letter">P</xsl:with-param>
> 
> This XSLT document will extract the correct index terms from the XML
> document (all place names beginning with the letter P), sort them, and
> present them as an HTML page to the user.
> 
> My problem is that I would like to do this using IIS rather than Apache.
> Is this possible? I have some knowledge of ASP if this will help.
> 
> Any advice would be most welcome.
> 
> Regards
> John
> 
> John Fitzgibbon
> 
> p: 00 353 91 562471
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