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

[Andy]

Great.

Could you please point me to the relevant parts of the documentation?

Thanks.

--- On Tue, 12/1/09, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> From: Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] Does xapian support attribute search & faceted  search?
> To: "Andy" <angelflow at yahoo.com>
> Cc: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6:44 PM
> 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
>