[Xapian-discuss] Result Snippet Highlighting?

[Peter Karman]

Gert Brinkmann wrote on 4/7/08 6:20 AM:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently looking for an IR-Framework for a perl based project. The
> xapian perl module seems very well up to date and nearly complete, so
> xapian looks very interesting. (I only did find lucene as an alternativ,
> but where perl support is not so grown up yet as it feels.)
> 

For the sake of completeness, you've missed some Perl projects out there if all 
you found was Lucene. Google for 'kinosearch' for starters.

> Before diving into xapian I would like to know if there is snippet
> highlighting support for the result list. (The searched word(s) and
> fuzzily related words should be marked up.) 

I post this every time the subject comes up so forgive me if you've seen it in 
the archives already. Check out http://search.cpan.org/dist/Search-Tools/ -- it 
is IR-library independent.

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