re: Locating text on a page - JavaScript, ASP, Perl, other

Hi David,

I am no expert, so feel free to ignore my ramblings. However, one of the
facilities you want is "stemming" - the inclusion of similar words with the
same root in the search.

This is supported by Index server:

"Index Server supports fuzzy queries, which contain simple wildcards (such
as those in MS-DOS), and matches regular expressions against textual
properties. Content queries support simple-prefix matching (for example,
dog* will return dogmatic and doghouse). Index Server also supports
linguistic stemming, which matches inflected and base forms of query words.
(For example, swim** is expanded to swimming, swam, swum, and so on.)"

And as I guess you know, you can ask an IS search to return pages with
highlighted words.

However, what you want to do is not quite answered by this. I think you need
to write a component yourself to do this - it sounds like something to do
server-side rather than client-side to me. But as I say, I'm no real expert,
just a heavy-duty IS user! Perhaps someone else can jump in and help?

Kind regards,

Lois Wakeman

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