[Xapian-discuss] Always returning ALL the documents matching a query

[James Aylett]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:35:43AM -0500, tata 668 wrote:

> Since there are more criterias than just the indexed text, how could
> I use Xapian without asking it to return ALL documents matching the
> main search query?

You can add terms to your Xapian database that represent the other
variables you want to restrict searches to. One common way of doing
this is to use omega-style prefixed terms
<http://xapian.org/docs/omega/termprefixes.html>, which is compatible
with the QueryParser and TermGenerator.

J

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