[Xapian-discuss] Xapian not retrieving documents?

Kwok-yau Kwong kwokyaukwong at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 12:30:56 BST 2007


It does seem that indexer is having problems with the archive I was throwing
it at, as I tested it with another archive which worked fine.
So thank you again for your insights and help.

Regards
Kwok


On 9/4/07, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:24:50AM +0100, Kwok-yau Kwong wrote:
>
> > So I guess my question is, does it look as though I am not getting
> relevant
> > search results because my indexer has not been indexing correctly (from
> the
> > delve results) or is Xapian just not retrieving the documents for any
> > reasons?
>
> Looking at what you saw from delve(1), I'd say that your indexer isn't
> doing what you think it's doing. Without knowing what your indexer is,
> or how it works, I can't say much more, but from what you said it
> sounds like it's indexing the names of the files rather than the
> contents of them, which is a little odd. I assume you're pulling the
> text nodes of the XML documents out in your indexer somehow?
>
> J
>
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