The DCS.Search module includes an IndexingOutputConfig component and definition file that are preconfigured to work with a typical catalog repository. The component, /atg/commerce/search/ProductCatalogOutputConfig, is configured to use the XML definition file /atg/commerce/search/product-catalog-output-config.xml. This definition file is intended to be used as a starting point; you will typically need to modify it to reflect your catalog and to optimize the XHTML output.

By default, the ProductCatalogOutputConfig component’s top-level item element is:

<item is-document="true" item-descriptor-name="product">

This element configures the ProductCatalogOutputConfig to create an XHTML document for each product in the product catalog. This means that each document indexed by Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search corresponds to a product, so that when a user searches the catalog, each individual result returned represents a product. The definition file specifies that each output document should include information about the product’s parent categories and child SKUs (as well as the product itself), so that users can search category or SKU properties in addition to product properties.