[Xapian-discuss] Phrase Search on Stemmed Data

[dd]

Hello
>> If i lowercase all words I get matches for stemmed terms, but I won't 
>> get a match on a phrase search (when capitalized terms occur).
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> Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean here.
>   
Just an example, where neither strategy is working. If I lowercase the 
whole querystring before parsing then the terms all get stemmed what 
leads to my desired behaviour. If a querystring with a phrase occurs 
now, I won't get a match if there have been words with leading capital 
letters occur (during indexing).

I may catch these two cases before parsing the query, but a solution in 
Xapian is cleaner (especially if one may enter a query like >>" Xapian 
Queryparser" parses queries<<, I think I have to create two queries then 
to get what I am looking for??! ... hope I'm not wrong with this... )


>   
>> Is that an issue I have to handle myself, or is there on other 
>> opportunity in Xapian.
>>     
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> Not at the moment, but we should add a way, and it's not hard to do.
> Could you please file a wishlist bug for this?
>   
Sure, should I create an entry in the bugtracker?

I've looked up queryparser_internal.cc, maybe you can spot me the 
location where I can change the source
(found something like should_stem, where the decision is made, if a word 
should be stemmed or not, but I'm no C++ expert ;-) )


Thank you very much,

Deniz