Hi Charles,
Actually, I think this *is* exactly what I'm looking for. I had never noticed
the <default> element before, but it sounds like I can use this approach to
force all search keywords not already under a constraint ("prefixless" as you
put it) to apply only to a specific element -- which is exactly what I need to
do. I'm working in a web application where the user can choose whether to
search everything (full text), only titles, or only author names. So when I'm
setting up the <options> element for search:search(), I can just check the
scope specified by the user, and if the user wants a title-only search, include
the <default> like you indicated below.
This is much simpler than what I was doing. In fact, since I already have a
title constraint defined (as in my original message below), it looks like I can
just do this:
<term>
<default ref="title"/>
</term>
Many thanks!
Greg
On Dec 5, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Charles Greer wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> If you want all prefixless searches to be scoped to a particular
> element, use the <term> configuration
>
> <term>
> <default>
> <word>
> <element ns="" name="title"/>
> </word>
> </default>
> </term>
>
> I don't see a way to do exactly what you're looking for however.
>
> Charles
>
>
> On 12/04/2013 11:27 AM, Murray, Gregory wrote:
>> I'm using the Search API, where it's easy enough to set up a word constraint
>> for a given element and then use the key:value syntax to search only the
>> values of that element, like so:
>>
>> <constraint name="title">
>> <word>
>> <element ns="http://example.com/ns"; name="title"/>
>> </word>
>> </constraint>
>>
>> Then you can search for title:whatever to find titles containing the word
>> "whatever". This works great, but it's cumbersome for multi-word searches.
>> For example, if I want titles containing both "sound" and "fury", I have to
>> search for this:
>>
>> title:sound title:fury
>>
>> It gets worse with situations like this:
>>
>> (title:encyclopedia OR title:dictionary) AND (title:music OR
>> title:musicology)
>>
>> Before I dig into trying to customize the search grammar or some such -- is
>> there an easier way to perform a word search while applying the *entire*
>> search expression only to a given element?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>
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