[Xapian-discuss] Getting document's context

[Matti Heinonen]

Hello all,

Is there a way to access an indexed document's contents sequentally 
starting from a given position in the document? I've been banging my 
thick head on xapian's documentation and wading my feet in the depths of 
the Internet for a day or so and not getting anywhere.

I'm using Python bindings for Xapian. Indexing and searching work fine, 
but I cannot figure out how to show a bit of textual context around 
terms found in a certain document (just like Google does).

When indexing, I am including posting information. When searching, I am 
able to get the position information for a term using 
database.positionlist(). But how to get the text in the positions around 
  the term?



Matti
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