[Xapian-discuss] retrieving attributes of searchresults

[Marcus Ramberg]

I tend to use Storable to stuff structures there (because it's  
relatively fast)

Marcus

On 31. jan. 2006, at 15.11, James Aylett wrote:

> 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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