Javascript query-able indexing of offline HTML docs

Question

I posted a similar question earlier but don't think I explained my requirements very clearly. Basically, I have a .NET application that writes out a bunch of HTML files ... I additionally want this application to index these HTML files for full-text searching in a way that javascript code in the HTML files can query the index (based on search terms input by a user viewing the files offline in a web browser).

The idea is to create all this and then copy to something like a thumb drive or CD-ROM to distribute for viewing on a device that has a web browser but not necessarily internet access.

I used Apache Solr for a proof of concept, but that needs to run a web server.

The closest I've gotten to a viable solution is JSSindex (jssindex.sourceforge.net), which uses Lush, but our users' environment is Windows and we don't want to require them to install Cygwin.

Answer 1

It looks like your main problem is to make index accessible by local HTML. Cheat way to do it: put index in JS file and refer from the HTML pages.

var index=[ {word:"home", files:["f.html", "bb.html"]},....];

Answer 2

Ladders Could be a solution, as it provides on the spot indexing. But with 1,000 files or more, I dunno how well it'd scale... Sadly, I am not sure JS is the answer here. I'd go for a custom (compiled) app that served both as front-end (HTML display) and back-end (text search and indexing).