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November 14, 2013

Querying rich text with Lux

Filed under: Lucene,Query Language,XML,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 11:17 am

Querying rich text with Lux – XQuery for Lucene by Michael Sokolov.

Slide deck that highlights features of Lux, which is billed at its homepage as:

The XML Search Engine Lux is an open source XML search engine formed by fusing two excellent technologies: the Apache Lucene/Solr search index and the Saxon XQuery/XSLT processor.

Not surprisingly, I am in favor of using XML to provide context for data.

You can get a better feel for Lux by:

Reading Indexing Queries in Lux by Michael Sokolov (Balisage 2013)

Visiting the Lux homepage: http://luxdb.org

Downloading Lux Source: http://github.com/msokolov/lux

BTW, Michael does have experience with XML based content: safaribooksonline.com, oed.com, degruyter.com, oxfordreference.com and others.

PS: Remember any comments on XQuery 3.0 are due by November 19, 2013.

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