[Xapian-discuss] Newbie question: searching certain fields only

[goran kent]

Hallo,

I'm new to xapian and have only started checking it out, so please forgive
my silly questions.

I'm trying to get my head around the following:

Given the following fields (values with prefixes):

Name:  ....
Surname:  ....
Address: ....
...

How can I (by default) search in Name and Surname only?  ie, I want to
ignore the Address field during search, unless I explicitly search it (eg,
by using "+address:..." in my query).

I don't want to add "-address:..." to the query (even silently in the
background) since this might inadvertently exclude desired results.

Sorry if my question is not very clear.  Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks