Yes, definately SpanFirstQuery! But i didn't know you can invoke it via
XMLQueryParser, thank Mikhail for that!
There is a tiny drawback to SpanFirst, there is no gradient boosting depending
on distance from the beginning.
Markus
-----Original message-----
> From:Mikhail Khludnev <m...@apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday 21st September 2016 9:24
> To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Search with the start of field
>
> You can experiment with {!xmlparser}<SpanFirst>.. see
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Other+Parsers#OtherParsers-XMLQueryParser
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Mahmoud Almokadem <prog.mahm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is the best way to search with the start token of field?
> >
> > For example: the field contains these values
> >
> > Document1: ABC DEF GHI
> > Document2: DEF GHI JKL
> >
> > when I search with DEF, I want to get Document2 only. Is that possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mahmoud
> >
> >
> --
> Sincerely yours
> Mikhail Khludnev
