[uf-discuss] Storing Microformats

[Angus McIntyre]

On Mon, September 17, 2007 5:15 pm, Philip Tellis wrote:
> On 18/09/2007, Paul Kinlan <paul.kinlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One of the other ideas that I am toying with is a Microformat spider,
>> that crawls the web looking for microformats, storing them and then
>> allowing them to be searched.   My question is: How are people storing
>> the data present in microformats so that they can be searched and
>> maintained and consumed in applications etc?
>
> You may want to look at either an Object Oriented Database or an XML
> Database.

Document-oriented storage systems might work here, i.e. the SOLR/Lucene
combo. You might want to take a look at:

   http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/08/09/solr-indexing-xml-with-lucene-andrest.html

for instance.

Angus