[Xapian-discuss] Exact matches

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:21:44PM -0700, Robert Kaye wrote:
> Is there any way I can tweak Xapian to move exact matches to 100% and  
> matches that have more/fewer terms lower?

I would suggest that you take the artist name, normalise it (squash
punctuation and whitespace to a single space or nothing and casefold;
perhaps drop a leading "the" or trailing ", the") and add this as a
prefixed term.

Then do the same to the query string and postprocess the parsed query by
adding this term, probably with OP_OR so that punctuation normalisation
works even if the parsed query doesn't match).

So in this case, the artist term would be "XARTISTduran duran" or
perhaps "XARTISTduranduran".

Cheers,
    Olly