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+<!DOCTYPE Repository
+          PUBLIC "-//The Apache Software Foundation//DTD Jackrabbit 1.5//EN"
+          "http://jackrabbit.apache.org/dtd/repository-1.5.dtd">
+<Repository>
+	<FileSystem class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.local.LocalFileSystem">
+		<param name="path" value="/jackrabbit" />
+	</FileSystem>
+	<Security appName="Jackrabbit">
+		<AccessManager class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.simple.SimpleAccessManager" />
+		<LoginModule class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.simple.SimpleLoginModule">
+			<param name="anonymousId" value="anonymous" />
+		</LoginModule>
+	</Security>
+	<Workspaces rootPath="${rep.home}/workspaces" defaultWorkspace="default" />
+	
+	<DataStore class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.data.FileDataStore">
+        <param name="path" value="${rep.home}/repository/datastore"/>
+        <param name="minRecordLength" value="100"/>
+    </DataStore>
+	
+	<Workspace name="${wsp.name}">
+		<FileSystem class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.local.LocalFileSystem">
+			<param name="path" value="${wsp.home}" />
+		</FileSystem>
+		
+		<PersistenceManager class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.BundleFsPersistenceManager">
+			<param name="blobFSBlockSize" value="0"/>
+			<param name="minBlobSize" value="4096"/>
+			<param name="errorHandling" value=""/>
+		</PersistenceManager>
+
+		<SearchIndex class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.query.lucene.SearchIndex">
+			<param name="path" value="${wsp.home}/index" />
+			<param name="indexingConfiguration" value="${wsp.home}/index-config.xml"/>
+			<param name="textFilterClasses" value="
+			  org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.MsWordTextExtractor,
+              org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.MsExcelTextExtractor,
+              org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.MsPowerPointTextExtractor,
+              org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.PdfTextExtractor,
+              org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.OpenOfficeTextExtractor,
+              org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.RTFTextExtractor,
+              org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.XMLTextExtractor,
+              org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.PngTextExtractor,
+			  org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.HTMLTextExtractor"/>
+            <param name="extractorPoolSize " value="2"/>
+            <param name="supportHighlighting" value="true"/>
+		</SearchIndex>
+	</Workspace>
+	<Versioning rootPath="${rep.home}/versions">
+		<FileSystem class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.local.LocalFileSystem">
+			<param name="path" value="${rep.home}/versions" />
+		</FileSystem>
+<!--		<PersistenceManager class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.xml.XMLPersistenceManager" />-->
+		<PersistenceManager class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.BundleFsPersistenceManager">
+			<param name="blobFSBlockSize" value="0"/>
+			<param name="minBlobSize" value="4096"/>
+			<param name="errorHandling" value=""/>
+		</PersistenceManager>
+	</Versioning>
+</Repository>