Serverless Searching with XSLT and JavaScript

Increasing awareness of the burdens technical debt and risks costs associated with complex server infrastructures have prompted digital humanists to consider moving purely static HTML/CSS/JS websites for projects such as online editions. Building sites is not difficult, but editions also require sophisticated search capabilities, incorporating text stemming wildcards well a rich array filters tuned contents edition itself. Responding this need, we created staticSearch, system which builds indexes offline XSLT queries them statically using JavaScript, providing straightforward approach websites. This presentation will describe how staticSearch works, discuss some interesting challenging problems that has overcome.