Re: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Geir Bækholt
on Monday, August 14, 2000 Jean Jordaan wrote : JJ This works great, but returns only the JJ found objects and the cached properties specified in the JJ MetaDate Table. JJ Wouldn't it be great to be able to give just a line or two JJ of context from the full text, the way Google does? I

RE: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi Geir make a pythonmethod that returns the first 200 letters or something of the text , I've already got a pretty structured-text "Abstract" field that tells about the document, but I'd like to *see* the sentence on page 67 or wherever in a document where my term matches, so I know

Re: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Chris Withers
Jean Jordaan wrote: I've already got a pretty structured-text "Abstract" field that tells about the document, but I'd like to *see* the sentence on page 67 or wherever in a document where my term matches, so I know whether it's mentioned in passing or really important .. erk... that's a

RE: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Jean Jordaan
Dunno if Catalog can do it either .. not even if I do include the fulltext in the MetaData Table. 'Cause the hit will have come from the indexed text, so it has no way of knowing *which* hit in the original fulltext it was .. right? -- jean ___ Zope

Re: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Chris Withers
Jean Jordaan wrote: Dunno if Catalog can do it either .. not even if I do include the fulltext in the MetaData Table. 'Cause the hit will have come from the indexed text, so it has no way of knowing *which* hit in the original fulltext it was .. right? Yeah, but there may be some

Re: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:04:49 +0100, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean Jordaan wrote: I've already got a pretty structured-text "Abstract" field that tells about the document, but I'd like to *see* the sentence on page 67 or wherever in a document where my term matches, so I know

RE: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi Toby If you really do have a 67 page document, For the sake of the argument, that was page 67 of a 149-page document .. it would be better to store each page in its own ZODB object, and index each page individually. Well, the number of pages depends on the formatting .. but it might

Re: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I may be clueless and out of my league here and I haven't read the sources so I don't know... Well enough of a disclaimer. :) Is there anything in there which can provide the seek or byte position of the hit within text object? If so, it shouldn't be too difficult to read X bytes before

Re: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I may be clueless and out of my league here and I haven't read the sources so I don't know... Well enough of a disclaimer. :) Is there anything in there which can provide the seek or byte position of the hit within text object? If so, it shouldn't be too difficult to read X bytes before

Re: [Zope] zcatalog -- returning context of hits on fulltext

2000-08-14 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I may be clueless and out of my league here and I haven't read the sources so I don't know... Well enough of a disclaimer. :) I *have* read the ZCatalog/SearchIndex sources, but I don't understand this part of it yet (or really that much of it at