[Xapian-discuss] scoring question

[Alexander Lind]

> Yes, I think that would cause all the documents to get the same weight.
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I can confirm that it does :p
> I've wondered before if wdf should be forced to always be at least one,
> but it's perhaps useful to be able to add boolean terms without
> affecting the document length.
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Maybe make it 1 by default, but possible to set to 0 explicitly?

>> I'll see if I can figure out what I have done wrong before bothering you 
>> anymore. Probably something in my indexing script.
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> If it isn't pilot error, do let us know.
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Pilot error it was. I had a boost factor variable, which always got set 
to 0, effectively zero:ing the wdf argument for all documents.
Fixed now and working like a charm again.

Alec
> Cheers,
>     Olly
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