[Xapian-discuss] indexing / searching hierarchies

[Kapil Thangavelu]

hi folks,
i'd like to index a set of documents arranged in a hierarchy, and perform
queries to retrieve subsets of documents based on their position within a
hierarchy...

ie

 /australia
   /mammals
      /marsupials
      /dingos
   /reptiles
      /snakes

so i'd like to search against a given sub hierarchy.

in systems like lucene, i'd index the full document path as a filed, and use
a prefix query when searching against a subset of the hierarchy.

is this sort of behavior possible with xapian, and how would one go about
it? are there any examples of this sort of behavior?

thanks,

kapil