JavaScript code is part of LibX: http://libx.org/libx/src/base/chrome/libx/content/libx/isbnutils.js but can be used as a separate module. Including testing for ISBNs, ISSNs, 13-10 conversion and checksum recomputation. MPL'ed. - Godmar On 5/31/06, Kevin Kierans <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > Re: ISBN going to 13 characters > Anyone willing to share a (preferably) perl 13 to 10 character > and a 10 to 13 character conversion routine? > Or point me to one? > Thanks. > Kevin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of > Ross Singer > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:04 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch > > > Plucene is (was?) a Perl port for Lucene. Scuttlebutt has it that > it's really, really slow. > > KinoSearch is also a Perl port for Lucene (although not as strict and, > apparently, much faster). The developer of KinoSearch and the > developer of Ferret (the Lucene port for Ruby) are teaming with one of > the developers of Lucene to make Lucy (which is a 'shared core' for > Lucene) which would then make it easier to write interoperable code > between these languages (at least, I presume that's the goal). > > http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LucyProposal > > Pylucene seems to be left out of the party (I guess because instead of > being a port -- it's actually the Java classes used by Python? Is > that right?). > > I'm not sure where stemming comes in (does Lucene do this?), it seems > faceted browsing could be handled by something like Carrot2. Rumor > has it Solr has faceting support somewhere, as well. At least, > according to the 9s project. http://www.nines.org/ > > -Ross. > > On 5/30/06, K.G. Schneider <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > There is nothing wrong with Lucene. In fact, Lucene seems to be > > > becoming the indexer of choice. I just do not have the abilities to > > > write things in Java. > > > > Ah--I read your document as referencing Lucene, but you actually wrote > > *Plucene.* > > > > Karen S. > > > > >