Since Chris Chiasson and David Cramer built custom search engines for DocBook, I thought it might be useful to create one for DITA, too! I frequently search the Language Specification, and it would also be handy to search the mailing archives. To that end, I present my custom Google Co-op search: DITA Search!
The DITA Search homepage is available here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015401811188033694464%3Ahu_dvbft4pu
If you would like to have a search plugin for your browser, save the following as an xml file to your C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profilename\searchplugins directory:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>DITA Search</ShortName>
<Description>Search DITA1.0 Language Specification, DITA Wiki, DITA Focus Area and more! </Description>
<Contact>scottys.log@gmail.com</Contact>
<Developer>Scott Hudson</Developer>
<LongName>DITA Search</LongName>
<SyndicationRight>open</SyndicationRight>
<AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
<Language>en-us</Language>
<OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/custom?cx=015401811188033694464:hu_dvbft4pu&q={searchTerms}&sa=Search&cof=CX%3ADITA%2520Search%3BFORID%3A0&hl=en&client=google-coop" />
</OpenSearchDescription>
I've also created a DITA Documentation search (lang spec, toolkit, other official docs) here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015401811188033694464%3Acm02go-4hv8
Here's the plugin code for DITA Documentation:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>DITA Documentation</ShortName>
<Description>Search DITA1.0 Language Specification, DITA OT, and other official docs.</Description>
<Contact>scottys.log@gmail.com</Contact>
<Developer>Scott Hudson</Developer>
<LongName>DITA Official Documentation Search</LongName>
<SyndicationRight>open</SyndicationRight>
<AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
<Language>en-us</Language>
<OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015401811188033694464%3Acm02go-4hv8&q={searchTerms}&sa=Search&cof=CX%3ADITA%2520Docs%3BFORID%3A0&hl=en&client=google-coop" />
</OpenSearchDescription>
Enjoy!
NOTE: you must change the & to & in the Url template string...
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