[Xapian-discuss] PHP termpos issue

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:40:38PM -0400, Mike Ragalie wrote:
> The latter formulation is working for me now; I didn't realize that the
> TermGenerator doesn't attach position information to stemmed terms.

The reasoning behind this is that it helps keep the database size down.
Phrases most naturally work on unstemmed terms and it's reasonable
enough that NEAR, etc do too.

Why are you after positonal information for the stemmed terms?  It could
perhaps be made an option for TermGenerator.

Cheers,
    Olly