If you prefer the old way (multiple indices) you can do that with Lucene, too. Look at MultiSearcher class. Lucene also supports range queries which may be helpful. I haven't used them, but it sounds like the thing to look at.
Otis --- Paul Dlug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a relatively large (300,000+ documents) set of XML files to > index. The files themselves are articles broken up by journal and > decade > so that users can restrict their search to specific journals and year > ranges. Under our old search engine this was done by creating a > seperate > index for each journal/decade and then creating a "virtual index" > which > would search the smaller indexes and put the results together (with > scoring preserved). > > In Lucene it looks like I would have to build one large index and do > something like this: > > title:test && (journal:myjournal && (year:1990 || year:1991 || > year:1992 > || year:1993 || year:1994 || year:1995 || year:1996 || year:1997 || > year:1998 || year:1999)) > > Is there a better way to do this? > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
