This was a short talk I gave at BarCamp London 1 in 2006 as an introduction to using Xapian (from python).
Xapian has moved on considerably since then, and I haven't updated the code, but it may still be of interest to some.
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare as:
- Plain text from Project Gutenberg as
shaks12.txt
- XML from iBiblio in a directory
xml
- Plain text from Project Gutenberg as
- Eric Meyer's S5 to make the slideshow work (just the
ui/
directory will do)
If you're interested in Xapian, then check out the user guide, and then dive into more information on the project website and project wiki.