Better idea for a search page, it involves using Javascript, XSL and ASP...
Step One: Place the following code anywhere, inserting what you want for link, title, and description in your search.xsl page...
<FORM NAME="database">
<input type="hidden" name="list"><xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:for-each select="whatever"><xsl:value-of select="field[@id='link']/field_value"/>~<xsl:value-of select="field[@id='title']/field_value"/>|<xsl:value-of select="field[@id='description']/field_value" />^<xsl:value-of select="field[@id='description']/field_value"/>!*</xsl:for-each></xsl:attribute></input>
</FORM>
Step Two: Place this code into the body of your search.xsl page
<script language="JavaScript">
<xsl:comment><
) {
url = url.substring(1,url.length);
}
this.url = url;
while ((title.length > 0) && (title.charAt(0) == " "
) {
title = title.substring(1,title.length);
}
this.title = title;
this.keywords = keywords;
this.description = description;
return this;
}
function Database() {
var pos = 0;
while ((pos1 = amorphous.indexOf("~",pos)) != -1) {
pos2 = amorphous.indexOf("|",pos1+1);
pos3 = amorphous.indexOf("^",pos2+1);
pos4 = amorphous.indexOf("*",pos3+1);
if ((pos2 != -1)
&& (pos2 < pos3) && (pos3 < pos4)
&& (pos4 <= amorphous.indexOf("*",pos))) {
this[database_length++] = new Page(amorphous.substring(pos,pos1),
amorphous.substring(pos1+1,pos2),
amorphous.substring(pos2+1,pos3),
amorphous.substring(pos3+1,pos4));
pos = pos4+1;
} else { // error reading amorphous database
if (pos+30 <= amorphous.length)
alert('Error reading in amorphous database around "'
+ amorphous.substring(pos,pos+30) + '"');
pos = amorphous.indexOf("*",pos) + 1;
}
}
return this;
}
function search(str) {
menu_length = 0;
temp = new Object();
temp_length = 0;
words_length = 0;
words = new Object();
pos = 0;
while ((pos = str.indexOf(" "
) != -1
&& and_search != "exact"
{
words[words_length] = str.substring(0,pos);
if (words[words_length].length > 0)
words_length++;
if (str.length == 1)
str="";
else
str = str.substring(pos+1,str.length);
}
if (str.length > 0)
words[words_length++] = str;
for (q=0;q<words_length;q++) {
temp_length = 0;
str = words[q].toLowerCase();
len = (and_search=="and"&&q>0?menu_length:database_length);
for (n=0; n<len; n++) {
if (and_search=="and"&&q>0) {
combo = (menu[n].title + " " + menu[n].description
+ " " + menu[n].keywords).toLowerCase();
} else {
combo = (database[n].title + " " + database[n].description
+ " " + database[n].keywords).toLowerCase();
}
if (combo.indexOf(str) != -1) // found
temp[temp_length++] = (and_search=="and"&&q>0?menu[n]:database[n]);
}
if (and_search!="and" && q>0) {
added = 0;
for (i=0;i<temp_length;i++) {
duplicate = false;
for (j=0;j<menu_length&&!duplicate;j++) {
if (menu[j] == temp) {
duplicate = true;
}
}
if (!duplicate)
menu[menu_length+(added++)] = temp;
}
menu_length += added;
} else {
for(h=0;h<temp_length;h++)
menu[h] = temp[h];
menu_length = temp_length;
}
}
}
function entry() {
if ((document.entryform.keyword.value.length == 0)
|| (document.entryform.keyword.value == " "
) {
alert("First you must enter a keyword to search for."
;
return false;
}
and_search = (document.entryform.and_or.selectedIndex == 0?"and":"or"
;
if (document.entryform.and_or.selectedIndex == 2)
and_search = "exact";
location.href = location.pathname + "?"
+ escape(document.entryform.keyword.value)
+ (and_search != "or"?"&"+and_search:""
;
return false;
}
function redWord(str) {
for(r=0; r<words_length; r++) {
pos = -3;
word = words[r].toLowerCase();
while ((pos = str.toLowerCase().indexOf(word,pos+3)) != -1) {
val = pos+word.length;
str = str.substring(0,pos) + "*"
+ str.substring(pos,val) + "|"
+ str.substring(val,str.length);
}
}
pos = -16;
while ((pos = str.toLowerCase().indexOf("*",pos+16)) != -1)
str = str.substring(0,pos) + "<font color=red>"
+ str.substring(pos+1,str.length);
pos = -7;
while ((pos = str.toLowerCase().indexOf("|",pos+7)) != -1)
str = str.substring(0,pos) + "</font>"
+ str.substring(pos+1,str.length);
return str;
}
var amorphous = document.database.list.value;
temp_str = amorphous.substring(amorphous.length-2,amorphous.length);
if (temp_str.indexOf("*"
== -1)
amorphous += "* ";
else
amorphous += " "; // amorphous database must have characters after last asterisk
database_length = 0; // Netscape 2 fix
var database = new Database(); // read in from amorphous database
menu_length = 0; // Netscape 2 fix
var menu = new Object();
string = "";
and_search = "or";
if (location.search.length > 1) {
string = unescape(location.search.substring(1,location.search.length));
pos = 0;
while ((pos = string.indexOf('"',pos)) != -1) {
string = string.substring(0,pos) + '\\"' + string.substring(pos+1,string.length);
pos += 2;
}
if (string.substring(string.length-4,string.length) == "&and"
{
string = string.substring(0,string.length-4);
and_search = "and";
} else if (string.substring(string.length-6,string.length) == "&exact"
{
string = string.substring(0,string.length-6);
and_search = "exact";
} else if (string.substring(string.length-3,string.length) == "&or"
{
string = string.substring(0,string.length-3);
and_search = "or";
}
search(string);
}
document.write('<form name="entryform" onSubmit="return entry()">'
+'<b>Search for:</b><br /><input type="text" size=20 '
+'name="keyword" value="'+string+'"> '
+'<input type="button" value="Search" onClick="entry()"><br /><select name="and_or" '
+'size=1><option'+(and_search=="and"?" selected":""
+'>find all words '
+'(AND)<option'+(and_search=="or"?" selected":""
+'>find any word '
+'(OR)<option'+(and_search=="exact"?" selected":""
+'>exact '
+'match</select></form><br />');
if (location.search.length > 1)
document.write('<b>Results:</b><br /><br />\n');
// eliminate the keywords portion of the statement below to eliminate them from your display
for (n=0; n<menu_length; n++)
document.write('<b><a href="'+menu[n].url+'">'+menu[n].title
+'</a></b><br />'+redWord(menu[n].description)+'<br />Keywords: '
+redWord(menu[n].keywords)+'<br /><br />\n');
if ((menu_length == 0) && (location.search.length > 1))
document.write('Keyword "'+string+'" not found!\n');
// -->
]]></xsl:comment>
</script>
Step 3: Make an ASP page w/ the following code, such as search.asp
<%
'Load the XML
set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"
xml.async = false
xml.load(Server.MapPath("whateveryourxmlfileis.xml"
)
'Load the XSL
set xsl = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"
xsl.async = false
xsl.load(Server.MapPath("search.xsl"
)
Response.Write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
%>
What will happen: the ASP page will pick up your XML file and the search.xsl file will basically turn that XML file content into a set of search possibilities within the makeshift javascript database where each element, such as the link, title, etc is separated by odd characters such as ~, |, and ! --- for example, if I had the following xml document...
<whatever>
<title>Russ</title>
<description>Russ is rad</description>
<link>viewer.asp?select=Russ</link>
</whatever>
it would look like this in the code when parsed...
<form name="database" value="viewer.asp?select=Russ~Russ|Russ is rad^Russ is rad!">
So if you fill out the search on the page with say... "russ" and one of your records in your XML document has "russ" in its description node, or whatever node value you put in between the special characters, it would spit out the search result...
<a href="viewer.asp?select=Russ">Russ:</a>
Russ is Rad, Russ Is Rad
Does this make any sense? You can do this with attributes too.
