Re: [Zope-dev] "stemmed and stopped": problems with stopwords and the 'and' operator

2000-08-17 Thread Martijn Pieters
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 02:23:59AM -0400, R. David Murray wrote: > I can do 'from SearchIndex.Splitter > import Splitter', and call Splitter, and see that stopwords are > not removed, but I can't do 'from SearchIndex.UnTextIndex import > Splitter' because it complains about not being able to impor

[Zope-dev] "stemmed and stopped": problems with stopwords and the 'and' operator

2000-08-16 Thread R. David Murray
OK, so the TextIndex of a ZCatalog says that it "stems and stops" the words before indexing them and, one would hope, before searching for them. I always thought that "stem" meant "derive the stem of the word" (so as to make the index smaller). I just peeked at the Splitter.c source code for the