Re: [Gnumed-devel] doc_med , txt blob

[James Busser]

On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> My knee-jerk reaction would be, why, of course, dump it
> into doc_obj.data.
>
> While this would certainly work and not lose any data I'll
> wager a paraphrasing of the question:
>
> How to store a text blob as a document and not lose
> *information*

Is the issue that an effective search process must easily figure out  
the method needed to look inside a particular object, but plain text  
file content does not itself say, for example, "I am an ASCII text  
file"?

> - Convert the text into UTFx, create a unicode file with the
>   proper start of file marker and store that into
>   doc_obj.data.

Does GNUmed have --- or is it in future intended to have --- a search  
process that, based on start of file markers inside objects, can  
easily determine a method to do e.g. boolean searches inside the  
object(s), facilitated by some kind of re-usable open source plug-in?