X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fintroduction.xml;h=528f546719504e7f6e7c958c125b07cf51447d60;hb=c22b27ba78b584e1f3e6ba863b854bf7f741d0a3;hp=97f86fac2e8f6626cc08b245d8cf0af1101b0379;hpb=658e913f7bdebe46f428d58914951ed19d193e2f;p=idzebra-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml index 97f86fa..528f546 100644 --- a/doc/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/introduction.xml @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ - Introduction
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ &zebra; is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It reads records in a - variety of input formats (eg. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access + variety of input formats (e.g. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access to them through a powerful combination of boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries. @@ -208,7 +207,7 @@ Predefined field types user defined Data fields can be indexed as phrase, as into word - tokenized text, as numeric values, url's, dates, and raw binary + tokenized text, as numeric values, URLs, dates, and raw binary data. and @@ -218,7 +217,7 @@ Regular expression matching available Full regular expression matching and "approximate - matching" (eg. spelling mistake corrections) are handled. + matching" (e.g. spelling mistake corrections) are handled. @@ -781,7 +780,7 @@ Why does Kete wants to use Zebra?? Speed, Scalability and easy integration with Koha. Read their detailled + url="http://kete.net.nz/blog/topics/show/44-who-what-why-when-answering-some-of-the-niggly-development-questions">detailed reasoning here.
@@ -961,7 +960,7 @@ &zebra; has been used by a variety of institutions to construct indexes of large web sites, typically in the region of tens of millions of pages. In this role, it functions somewhat similarly - to the engine of google or altavista, but for a selected intranet + to the engine of Google or AltaVista, but for a selected intranet or a subset of the whole Web.