[Xapian-discuss] Seek help with simple writer/search using Perl

[Jeff Anderson]

Actually ... if there is some piece of documentation out there that
exlains why one should use data,  postings, or terms ... that would be
great guys. I'm not looking for someone to do my work for me, i have
just found the documents for this tool to be very lacking and am
simply seeking some direction.

We can always continue to use Plucene, i suppose ...

On 4/9/07, Jeff Anderson <captvanhalen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the answers Olly (and Ralf).
>
> Of course, now i have more questions. :)
>
>
>
> On 4/9/07, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> > The document data is opaque as far as Xapian is concerned.  Store
> > whatever you want there (typically you'd put things you need to display
> > a match to the user, like the title, a sample of text, etc).
>
> Great. In Lucene i was able to do this like so:
>
> Plucene::Document::Field->Text($key => $value)
>
> The key point is here is that i could add multiple key/value pairs,
> and be able to retrieve them when it came time to display results to
> the user. I would store the Title, URL, and a text blurb in this
> manner.
>
> However ... can i store key/values in Search::Xapian::Document::set_data() ??
>
> According to the docs, it only takes a single argument called "data" :
>
> "set_data <data>
>     Set all document data. This can be anything you like."
>
> How can i store fields such as URL AND title AND description so that i
> can retrieve them from the objects returned in a successful match?
>
> Thanks again,
> --
> jeffa
>


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jeffa