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List:       alexandria-dev
Subject:    Re: idea: search function for APIs
From:       burtonator <burton () relativity ! yi ! org>
Date:       2000-08-22 20:47:13
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Chris Todd wrote:
> 
> Kevin-
> 
> Great, I had assumed that was the general idea.
> 
> I checked out the Linux Cross Reference, which is apparently the model for
> the Java Cross Reference, 

yup :)

> and I liked the idea of being able to search for
> function names (and class names, too?).  Is the JXR itself a search engine,
> or am I missing the point?  Your comment below about putting Alexandria
> behind a search engine makes me wonder if I understand exactly what
> Alexandria is supposed to do. ;-)
<snip>

It doesn't actually perform the searching.  You can put the content
behind a search engine if you want (it is just HTML).

That said we should expose an XML query mechanism.  Perhaps with the
Cocoon XML Doclet we can produce a general index for all the code.

Kevin

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