An advanced open source fulltext indexing package available from:
http://www.xapian.org

It includes bindings for some scripting languages including a [SWIG] generated Tcl binding, properly packaged as a [stubs] enabled Tcl package since version 0.8.4.

([EMJ]) To build the current release, you need http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.6/xapian-core-1.0.6.tar.gz and http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.6/xapian-bindings-1.0.6.tar.gz . In the latter, two fixes are needed before building:

* Edit '''configure''', changing

    TCL_LIB=`echo 'foreach d $tcl_pkgPath {if {!regexp {/share(/|$)} $d} {break}};puts $d'|$TCLSH`
    
to

    TCL_LIB=`echo 'foreach d $tcl_pkgPath {if {![regexp {/share(/|$)} $d]} {break}};puts $d'|$TCLSH`
    
* Edit '''tcl8/Makefile.in''', changing

 tcllibdir = @TCL_LIB@/../xapian@VERSION@

to

 tcllibdir = @TCL_LIB@/xapian@VERSION@

I don't know whether these have been fixed in the various pre-compiled packages.

[OllyBetts] I can't find a way to contact "EMJ" other than updating this wiki page (which is far from ideal - sorry), but if you find bugs in Xapian, please report them so we can actually fix them!  I stumbled across this page completely by accident.  I've just fixed the first issue (down to m4 quoting).  The second "fix" isn't correct for all platforms - for my Tcl installation (Ubuntu Hardy) - I get TCL_LIB=/usr/lib, and I don't want the Tcl bindings to go in /usr/xapian1.0.6!  Suggestions for a better way to determine where to install are welcome.

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[schlenk] This could be a base for a very nice search engine to be added to tclhttpd or rivet for example. Or maybe even as an additional search engine for the wiki?

[CMcC] if you use a [metakit] store for the pages, you can just use the select -keyword option and get fulltext search aka [KWIC]

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