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<title>Welcome to Cocoon XML Search using Lucene</title>

-<content>

-<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/">

</a>

<h1>XML Search</h1>

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

-<ul>

<li>Creating a Lucene index to enable searching </li>

<li>Searching through a once created Lucene index using various means: </li>

-<li>

Searching a Lucene index using

<em>SearchGenerator</em>

</li>

</ul>

<h2>Creating an Index</h2>

<p> You must create a Lucene index first, before you can do the searching. You can create a Lucene index either by crawling, or by using LuceneIndexTransformer. </p>

<h3>Creating Index By Crawling</h3>

-<p>

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

<a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/views.html">cocoon-view</a>

aware of content-labels

<strong>links</strong>

, and

<strong>content</strong>

. For example you might use the base URL

<code>http://localhost:8888/docs/index.html</code>

</p>

-<p>

This following page allows you to

<a href="create">create</a>

an index of all of Cocoon Sample pages.

</p>

-<p>

(There are many ways to add content to a Lucene index. For an example of using the LuceneIndexTransformer, see the

<a href="../querybean/">QueryBean</a>

Sample).

</p>

<h2>Searching</h2>

<p> If you have created a Lucene index, you can search the created index. </p>

<h3>Searching Index</h3>

-<p>

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

<a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/search-generator.html">Search Generator</a>

</p>

-<p>

-<form action="findIt" method="get">

</form>

</p>

<h2>Internals</h2>

-<p>

Cocoon XML search uses the

<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/">Jakarta Lucene</a>

indexing and search engine. The Cocoon documentation

<a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/xmlsearching.html">explains</a>

how it is implemented within Cocoon. Look behind the scenes of this example to find out more.

</p>

</content>

</page>