Hi Fayyaz, I recommend to use SAX or, maybe, a custom parser for large xml files .It should be faster than using Digester. The main difference between those xml parsers is that Digester needs to load the entire xml document in memory when it creates those objects, meanwhile you can parse the document and add its content in Lucene index on the fly using SAX. On the other hand with Digester the documents are parsed twice: once to transform the xml to Digester object and second you should use this object to add its content to Lucene index. Digester is very good for small documents and if you don't want to worry about the xml parsing problems. A custom parser maybe is the best solution if you want to have best performances. I chose this solution.
Regards, Catalin ----- Original Message ---- From: syedfa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 5:43:28 AM Subject: XML parsing using Lucene in Java Dear Fellow Lucene Developers: I am a java/jsp developer and have started learning lucene for the purpose of creating a search engine for some books that I have in xml format. The XML document is actually quite large, and would like to provide as accurate results as possible to the user searching through these books. My question is, which xml parser do you recommend using, SAX or Digester? Is there a difference? Does one parser provide better results than the other? What about performance issues? Any help that you can provide is greatly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Take care. Sincerely; Fayyaz -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/XML-parsing-using-Lucene-in-Java-tf4833124.html#a13827336 Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
