I agree with you that a highlight package should be available directly from the lucene website. To offer this much-desired feature, having a dependency on a personal web site seems a little weird to me. It would also force the community to support this functionality, which would seem appropriate.
cheers, sv On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Kevin A. Burton wrote: > I'm playing with this package: > > http://home.clara.net/markharwood/lucene/highlight.htm > > Trying to do hit highlighting. This implementation uses another > Analyzer to find the positions for the result terms. > > This seems that it's very inefficient since lucene already knows the > frequency and position of given terms in the index. > > My question is whether it's hard to find a TermPosition for a given term > in a given document rather than the whole index. > > IndexReader.termPositions( Term term ) is term specific not term and > document specific. > > Also it seems that after all this time that Lucene should have efficient > hit highlighting as a standard package. Is there any interest in seeing > a contribution in the sandbox for this if it uses the index positions? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
