Interview with Andrew - Q2

What is XML Connector Framework?

Oracle SES provides an XML connector framework to crawl any repository that provides an XML interface to its contents. Every document in a repository is known as an item. An item contains information about the document, such as author, access URL, last modified date, security information, status, and contents. A set of items is known as a feed (or channel). To crawl a repository, an XML document must be generated for each feed. Each feed is associated with information such as feed name, type of the feed, and number of items. To crawl a repository with the XML connector, you need to place your data feeds in a location accessible to Oracle SES over one of the following protocols: HTTP, FTP, or file. Then generate an XML Configuration File that contains information such as feed location and feed type. You will then create a source with a source type that is based on this XML connector and trigger the crawl from Oracle SES to crawl the feeds.

Click here to view how a data feed looks like.