uk.ac.gla.terrier.indexing
Class SimpleMedlineXMLCollection

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.gla.terrier.indexing.SimpleXMLCollection
      uk.ac.gla.terrier.indexing.SimpleMedlineXMLCollection

All Implemented Interfaces:

Collection

public class SimpleMedlineXMLCollection
extends SimpleXMLCollection

Initial implementation of a class that generates a Collection with Documents from a series of XML files in the Medline format. It process a limited number of documents in an XML file to avoid OutOfMemory problem in case the XML file is too large.

Properties:

• lowercase - lower case all terms obtained. Highly recommended.
• indexing.simplexmlcollection.reformxml - will try to reform broken & entities.
• xml.doc.buffer.size - The maximum number of documents to process per interation.

Author:

Ben He

Field Summary

java.lang.String	docEndTag The end tag of documents in the XML files.
java.lang.String	docTag The tag of documents in the XML files.
java.lang.String	EOL The end of line string.
java.lang.String	fileEndTag The tag indicating the end of an XML file.
java.lang.String	fileTag The tag indicating the start of an XML file.

Fields inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.indexing.SimpleXMLCollection

ELEMENT_ATTR_SEPARATOR, tokenMaximumLength

Constructor Summary

SimpleMedlineXMLCollection()
The default constructor.

SimpleMedlineXMLCollection(java.lang.String CollectionSpecFilename, java.lang.String BlacklistSpecFilename)
An alternative constructor.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.indexing.SimpleXMLCollection

close, endOfCollection, getDocid, getDocument, main, nextDocument, reset

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

docTag

public final java.lang.String docTag

The tag of documents in the XML files.

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Constant Field Values

docEndTag

public final java.lang.String docEndTag

The end tag of documents in the XML files.

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Constant Field Values

fileTag

public final java.lang.String fileTag

The tag indicating the start of an XML file.

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Constant Field Values

fileEndTag

public final java.lang.String fileEndTag

The tag indicating the end of an XML file.

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Constant Field Values

EOL

public final java.lang.String EOL

The end of line string.

Constructor Detail

SimpleMedlineXMLCollection

public SimpleMedlineXMLCollection()

The default constructor.

SimpleMedlineXMLCollection

public SimpleMedlineXMLCollection(java.lang.String CollectionSpecFilename,
                                  java.lang.String BlacklistSpecFilename)

An alternative constructor.

Parameters:

CollectionSpecFilename - The name of the file containing the location of XML files in the collection.

BlacklistSpecFilename - The name of the file containing the location of the blacklisted XML files in the collection.