This is for Perl SWISH::API users.

I have released a SWISH::HiLiter module intended for use with 
SWISH::API. It uses the HTML::HiLiter module to snip query terms in 
context from swishdescription (or whatever text you want) and highlights 
them in an array of colors, one color per query word.

http://search.cpan.org/~karman/

This is *NOT* intended as a drop-in replacement for the 
SWISH::*Highlight module set that comes with SWISH-E.

However, I have supplied a patch to use against the search.cgi example 
script that comes with SWISH-E, as an example of how to replace the use 
of SWISH::PhraseHighlight and SWISH::ParseQuery with SWISH::HiLiter. My 
preliminary benchmarks show that it runs about 10-20% faster on average 
than SWISH::PhraseHighlight.

SWISH::HiLiter is a simple interface between SWISH::API and the 
HTML::HiLiter module. It is intended to be used for snipping and 
highlighting search results, *not* entire pages of HTML.

HTML::HiLiter, on the other hand, can be used for highlighting entire 
pages of HTML. It uses the HTML::Parser module and is fairly quick. If 
you have used HTML::HiLiter before, a new version is posted (0.11) that 
supports SWISH::HiLiter.

The two modules are intended to be used together: SWISH::HiLiter for 
plain text in search results; HTML::HiLiter for the original HTML document.

Comments/feedback always welcome.


-- 
Peter Karman  .  http://www.cray.com/craydoc/ .  karman(at)not-real.cray.com