[ipac] HIP keyword indexes; accessing directly?

[Jonathan Rochkind]

Hey, anyone know what format the HIP keyword indexes are stored in? Are 
they in interbase/firebird, or are they in a proprietary format?

I am writing some software that wants to, behind the scenes, query 
Horizon/HIP on ISSN/ISBN (maybe some other identifiers too), and get 
back a list of bib#s.

I am doing this now by 'screen scraping' the HIP XML. It works. But it's 
SO slow. So very slow. So I'm wondering if I can talk to the HIP indexes 
directly maybe.  I guess I could talk to Horizon indexes too (via the 
rdbms?), but if there's a way to talk to HIP keyword indexes, I think 
that might work better.


Thanks for any ideas,
Jonathan