[Xapian-discuss] retrieving attributes of searchresults

[James Aylett]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:07:07PM +0000, Matthias Zeichmann wrote:

> i use the perl interface of Search::Xapian to index documents, now i
> got metadata i store with the index like title, date, author, .. and
> i wonder how to retrieve them from the index again without pulling
> them from the database.

I don't know how the perl bindings work, but the usual way to store
metadata is to structure the Xapian::Document data field. See the
documentation with omega for an example, but you could stuff anything
in there - serialised perl, XML, whatever.

J

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