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.

Both these issues have now been fixed in Xapian SVN, so 1.0.7 should just work. - OllyBetts

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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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