[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Need a list of words not indexed by Catalog

[Rik Hoekstra]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn.Faassen@vet.uu.nl [mailto:Martijn.Faassen@vet.uu.nl]On
> Behalf Of Martijn Faassen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:35 AM
> Cc: 'zope-dev@zope.org'
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Need a list of words not indexed by
> Catalog
>
>
> Terrel Shumway wrote:
> >
> > near the end of
> >         lib/python/SearchIndex/TextIndex.py
> > is a list called 'stop_words'
> >
> > [Zope Dev] It would be good to move this out of the .py file into an
> > editable, internationalizable resource file.
>
> Agreed! And then there's the *multi* lingual issue too. What if I have
> Dutch and English on my site?
>

Together with French and German and Chinese and Antarctic?

In other words: it would be a good idea to make stopwords/indexing
configurable. The second question is on what basis it should be
configurable: on a document basis or automatically (based on a language
property/header info/metainfo) or manually (on a folder basis). Hm, this is
only the surface - because if you think a bit more about it you would want
the index/catalog to yield multilingual results from a single search :-(. I
do not want to think about what this implies.
It seems like you run into a _lot_ of complexities with multilingual issues,
and still these are real issues for many of us.

Rik