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In this section, we will test the system by indexing a small set of sample OAI records that are included with the Zebra distribution, running a Zebra server against the newly created database, and searching the indexes with a client that connects to that server.
    Go to the examples/oai-pmh subdirectory of the
    distribution archive, or make a deep copy of the Debian installation
    directory
    /usr/share/idzebra-2.0-examples/oai-pmh.
    An XML file containing multiple OAI
    records is located in the  sub
    directory examples/oai-pmh/data.
   
Additional OAI test records can be downloaded by running a shell script (you may want to abort the script when you have waited longer than your coffee brews ..).
     cd data
     ./fetch_OAI_data.sh
     cd ../
    
To index these OAI records, type:
     zebraidx-2.0 -c conf/zebra.cfg init
     zebraidx-2.0 -c conf/zebra.cfg update data
     zebraidx-2.0 -c conf/zebra.cfg commit
    In case you have not installed zebra yet but have compiled the binaries from this tarball, use the following command form:
     ../../index/zebraidx -c conf/zebra.cfg this and that
    On some systems the Zebra binaries are installed under the generic names, you need to use the following command form:
     zebraidx -c conf/zebra.cfg this and that
    
    In this command, the word update is followed
    by the name of a directory: zebraidx updates all
    files in the hierarchy rooted at data.
    The command option
    -c conf/zebra.cfg points to the proper
    configuration file.
   
You might ask yourself how XML content is indexed using XSLT stylesheets: to satisfy your curiosity, you might want to run the indexing transformation on an example debugging OAI record.
     xsltproc conf/oai2index.xsl data/debug-record.xml
    Here you see the OAI record transformed into the indexing XML format. Zebra is creating several inverted indexes, and their name and type are clearly visible in the indexing XML format.
If your indexing command was successful, you are now ready to fire up a server. To start a server on port 9999, type:
     zebrasrv-2.0 -c conf/zebra.cfg  @:9999
    
    The Zebra index that you have just created has a single database
    named Default.
    The database contains  several OAI records, and the server will
    return records in the XML format only. The indexing machine
    did the splitting into individual records just behind the scenes.