Moved the postscan hook to run on the raw html of a page, before the template is filled out. This improves the search plugin's indexing, since it will not include navigational elements from the page template or sidebar.

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/doc/bugs/Search_summary_includes_text_from_navigational_elements.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Search_summary_includes_text_from_navigational_elements.mdwn
index 874b9ffeb..b774c4531 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/Search_summary_includes_text_from_navigational_elements.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Search_summary_includes_text_from_navigational_elements.mdwn
@@ -7,3 +7,16 @@ A way to name some CSS ids that should be removed in search results within the i
 http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-11/msg00077.html
 
 (bin attachment on that page is actually a .diff.)
+
+> So I was looking at this and I relized that while the search plugin used
+> to use the format hook, and so there was no way to avoid it seeing all
+> the gunk around the page body, it was changed a while ago for different
+> reasons to use its own hook, postscan. So there's really no reason not
+> to move postscan so it runs before said gunk is added to the page.
+> (Aside from a small risk of breaking other third-party plugins that
+> somehow use postscan.)
+> 
+> I've implemented that in git, and it drops the navigation elements nicely.
+> It's perhaps less general than allowing specific divs to be skipped from
+> search, but it seems good enough. Please thank the dragonfly guys for their
+> work on this. [[done]] --[[Joey]] 
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index c72418c3c..2f179d46f 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -201,6 +201,17 @@ like `Makefile` that have no extension.
 If `hook` is passed an optional "longname" parameter, this value is used
 when prompting a user to choose a page type on the edit page form.
 
+### postscan
+
+	hook(type => "postscan", id => "foo", call => \&postscan);
+
+This hook is called once the page has been converted to html (but before
+the generated html is put in a template). The most common use is to
+update search indexes. Added in ikiwiki 2.54.
+
+The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
+value is ignored.
+
 ### pagetemplate
 
 	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
@@ -237,17 +248,6 @@ modify the body of a page after it has been fully converted to html.
 The function is passed named parameters: "page", "destpage", and "content",
 and should return the sanitized content.
 
-### postscan
-
-	hook(type => "postscan", id => "foo", call => \&postscan);
-
-This hook is called once the full page body is available (but before the
-format hook). The most common use is to update search indexes. Added in
-ikiwiki 2.54.
-
-The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
-value is ignored.
-
 ### format
 
 	hook(type => "format", id => "foo", call => \&format);