Sorry for not getting back to you sooner on this Walter.
This may indeed be possible if you change the before_match and after_match
excerpts options to '<li>' and '</li>' respectively. You can do this via the
:excerpt_options search option:
Title.search 'foo', :excerpt_options => {:before_match => '<li>',
:after_match => '</li>'}
All the options in the Sphinx docs should be able to be used.
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-2.1.7.html#api-func-buildexcerpts
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Pat
On 23 May 2014, at 12:54 am, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a collection of titles, and I am searching them with TS 2. The results
> include some titles with multiple matches to the search string, which are
> being formatted correctly with ellipses and highlighted search term matches.
>
> My client would like the multiple matches within a title to be shown as a
> list, like this:
>
> 1. text leading up to [match string] and text thereafter
> 2. text leading up to [match string] and text thereafter
> 3. text leading up to [match string] and text thereafter
>
> so a searcher can see that the same term hit multiple times in that title
> more clearly. All I can see in the excerpts documentation (both TS and
> Sphinx) is that you can insert a string between multiple hits in a record. Is
> there a way to use HTML in this context (like </li><li>), or to override the
> excerpt builder in TS2? From what I gleaned from the Sphinx documentation,
> the return from the BuildExcerpts command is a list of strings, so I am
> thinking that this may be possible as long as TS intercepts the list rather
> than the raw string returned with the concatenation operation already
> completed.
>
> The other thing I was thinking was that I could just search for that
> concatenation string in the result, and mangle the text into a list by
> splitting on that term (obviously I would change it to something that could
> never occur in my title records before I tried that).
>
> Are there any other clever bits in TS that I have not discovered yet which
> could make this simpler?
>
> Thanks for all you do,
>
> Walter
>
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