[Xapian-discuss] Does xapian support attribute search & faceted search?

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andy wrote:
> Can I use xapian for a search like:
> 
> 'title' has the phrase "dinner jacket" AND 'color' == BLACK AND 'state' == MA
> AND 'size' == XL

Yes.

> What about faceted search?

Yes.  It's possible in 1.0.x (at least in languages where you can subclass
MatchDecider), but recent 1.1.x provides built-in features to support it
with less work on your part (ValueCountMatchSpy, etc).

Cheers,
    Olly