Search Templates

The templates available in SearchBlox are as follows:

category.xsl
clustered.xsl
default.xsl
eml.xsl
featured_results_top.xsl
frame.xsl
graph.xsl
highlight.xsl
opensearch.xsl
pagesort.xsl
rss.xsl
rss2.xsl
tabbed.xsl
url.xsl

The user can view the results in the corresponding template by providing the parameter xsl=template.xsl
For example, if you want to view the results in url.xsl format then the Search Servlet URL should be:
https://localhost:8080/searchblox/servlet/SearchServlet?query=test&xsl=url.xsl

All Stylesheets for regular search are available in <SEARCHBLOX_INSTALLATION_PATH>/webapps/searchblox/stylesheets folder.

Similarly, you can view the results in xml or json by providing the parameters
xsl=xml
xsl=json
Example:
https://localhost:8080/searchblox/servlet/SearchServlet?query=test&xsl=xml
https://localhost:8080/searchblox/servlet/SearchServlet?query=test&xsl=json

Additional details on templates

By default, default.xml is used as the template when using regular search
https://localhost:8080/searchblox/search.jsp
To get the featured results in regular search, the parameter xsl=featured_results_top.xsl is used.
url.xsl can be used to get only the URLs of the search results

Customizing Default Style

To customize the look and feel of the search results page, edit the default.xsl file under the stylesheets folder.
To replace the SearchBlox logo with a company’s logo, find “logo.jpg” in the XSL file and replace it with a jpeg of the company’s logo.
Place the company’s logo image file in the images folder under SearchBlox.
To change other look and feel aspects of the page, edit the HTML as required.

Changing Search Results Display

The default XSL to be used can be specified in the Results page of the Admin Console. To add a new template, place the style sheet file in the <SEARCHBLOX_INSTALLATION_PATH>/webapps/searchblox/stylesheets folder.
To use a different XSL style sheet dynamically, pass the XSL parameter as part of the search request. For example:
http://localhost:8080/searchblox/SearchServlet?query=time&xsl=new.xsl