The Drupal Lucene API

At DrupalCon DC, I attended a session on the Drupal Lucene API module. Now, I've been a Lucene Java hacker for many years, and have even written some pretty sophisticated Lucene-based software. I was thrilled when I discovered that Zend had replicated the Lucene API in the Zend Framework. A year or so ago I ported Pilaster over to ZF Lucene.

I am just now getting a chance to read through the Lucene API module for Drupal, and it is very impressive. Aside from being very easy to set up, the actual API is packed with useful goodies that should make building a search implementation easy. Of course, there is already a module for searching Drupal node content, but where Lucene API will shine is in its ability to add on other data sources.

Which leads me to ponder this: OpenOffice.org documents are in XML. QueryPath does XML. I'm thinking that a QueryPath/LuceneAPI tool for indexing OpenOffice documents could be written in about an hour. I hear that MS Office X documents are also XML.... <!--break-->

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