topic Re: Searching the content of xml files in Alfresco Archive

Searching the content of xml files

user01 — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:10:05 GMT

Hi, I am reading for some time documentation an forums, but still I do not have a clear idea about it. I would like to search the content of some xml files (I already read similar questions about it). How can I achieve this?I would like to avoid SOLR due to lack of time to setup the corresponding en

Re: Searching the content of xml files

mrogers — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:11:00 GMT

It depends, as always, upon your requirement.   Alfresco is not an XML database, although at one point we were considering the merits of adding an XML database.

If you have a simple requirement then you can extract the content of a few XML fields as alfresco properties.   There are various XML metadata extractors, or you can write your own.   Or you can use a text search of an XML document.   May not be the best but could work for some requirements.   Or you could somehow add an aspect with your metadata.

If you need to model some of XML's complex structure then you can, but I suggest you think carefully about how much is needed.

Re: Searching the content of xml files

user01 — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:02:00 GMT

Thank you so much for your answer!

I have seen the extract metadata solution previously, but this is not feasible for me. I want to avoid storing more metadata than necessary.

The full text search works on plain documents. To achieve this it means that I have to apply a content transformer to transform the XML into plain text that can be searched.
If I index the content of that XML file, how can I see what have been indexed? I have tried to see the content using Luke, but I cannot.
There are more elegant ways to achieve this?

I have read this post among some other ones: http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/technical-architecture-discussion/building-xml-repository-10142005-1944 .