[jsword-devel] Introduction

[DM Smith]

Welcome Yiguang!

Your work does not overlap ours and is most welcomed.

I don't know any way to easily search the mailing list archives except 
via google. Just include jsword-devel in your search.

We don't actually return the text of verses as the result of a search 
but a list of references to verses. At first this might seem like a 
drawback. It is a huge resource savings as you have a lot of control 
over how verses are fetched.

The search result will be a Key object which can be iterated over. Key 
has a very list like interface. You can get an iterator, the number of 
elements or a particular element by position. The elements returned from 
the iteration are references to verses. You have a choice as to what 
kind of Key to use. Typically it will be a PassageTally or a BitwisePassage.

You can subset the Key into other keys so that you can return partial 
results (e.g. pages with 50 verses on them)

 From a key you can request the text or an xsl transformation of the 
text. The xslt that we use within BibleDesktop creates HTML with custom 
protocols. I think that changing that would be make it work for the web.

You can see examples of most of this at 
http://crosswire.org/jsword/java2html/org/crosswire/jsword/examples/APIExamples.java.html. 
It does not have examples of how to iterate, but I can add those if you ask.

In the context of a web, you might want to look at ways to keep from 
refreshing the entire page with each request. Joe has been working on 
DWR (http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/), which is AJAX for Java made easy and 
it has just gone 1.0. This may be of use in making a website experience 
very enjoyable.

Hope this is a good start. Looking forward to seeing your website!
    DM

Yiguang Hu wrote:

>Hello,
>
>My name is Yiguang Hu. I am the webmaster of
>ccim.org-A volunteer supportted Chinese Christian
>Internet Mission. We host many Chinese Church/Orgs web
>sites and have a bible search engine and a E-library 
>and have several Chinese Christian web sites in/out of
>USA. 
>I just found the jsword project a few days ago and it
>is what I have been waiting for quite some time. I
>played a little bit of the source code and wrote a web
>interface using java server faces. I got the
>bible/dictionary/commentary works with some search
>result problems. 
>Because I just started, I may not be using the
>search function correctly. 
>Before I spend more time on it, I am just wondering if
>some one already started a web front effort. I will be
>very glad to add my code into the CVS so more people
>can help to improve it. 
>
>The other question is is there a interface that put
>the 
>search result in a collection of verses like a List so
>I can display them like 20 verses/entry a page ?
>
>One more question is Is there a way I can search the
>email archives instead of read the archive files one
>by one so I can find if my question is already
>answered or a duplicate ?
>
>
>Thank you very much for this great work.
>Yiguang
>
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