On Tuesday 06 September 2005 08:21, Sean O'Connor wrote: > I believe I have heard that Span queries provide some way to access > document offset information for their hits somehow. Does anyone know if > this is true, and if so, how I would go about it? > > Alternatively (preferably actually) does the surround code from the SVN > development area have a way of returning offsets for the matching hits?
Using getSpans(reader) on the span query will provide the Spans that match the query. A Spans iterates through begin/end offset pairs within the matching docs. This is provided by Lucene. > > I believe the current highlighter code matches all query terms in a hit > document, not just those satisfying a query criteria. I need a more > precise way to access the hit term offsets. I am working on hit > highlighting, hit excepts and summaries, and compound queries (is this > called search vectors?). I am still working through the surround code in > dev. to see if that gives me the compound queries I need. > > I am willing to spend a few days to work on implementing adding offsets > to the returned hits (or something similar) if this is not currently > available. It is something I need, even at the cost of search efficiency. See also the thread on better highlighting that started on 25 August and this: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35518 Regards, Paul Elschot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
