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XTF Programming Guide
This guide describes how to customize the operation of the E
Xtensible
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Framework (
XTF) This document assumes that you have completed the basic installation and configuration described in the
XTF Deployment Guide, and that their correct operation has been verified. Here are the available sections:
Introduction
This guide describes how to customize the operation of the E
Xtensible
Text
Framework (
XTF) This document assumes that you have completed the basic installation and configuration described in the
XTF Deployment Guide, and that their correct operation has been verified.
The XTF system consists of Java Servlets and tools that permit users to perform Web-based searching and retrieval of electronic documents. The basic organization of the XTF components can be illustrated as follows:

In this diagram, the basic flow of information is left to right. Document retrieval begins with a Web-based user search query. The
crossQuery servlet checks the query against an index of available documents, and produces a list of matching documents for display in a web browser. Selecting a document from the search results page invokes the
dynaXML servlet, which retrieves and formats the actual document for display in a web browser. The
textIndexer tool shown at the bottom is used to update the document search index whenever documents in the library are added, removed, or updated.
The remainder of this guide will examine how to customize the XTF tools and servlets by reprogramming the XSLT templates that define their behavior.