[Xapian-discuss] pbs with stdin and scriptindex

[stephane altazin]

>Probabilistic terms can have prefixes too.  If anything in the omega
>documentation suggests otherwise, can you point it out please, and we
>can fix it.


This is the sentence : "while probabilistic terms are all lower-case" in :
http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html in the Term Construction part.
But if Probabilistic Terms can have an uppercase prefix, what is the
difference with a boolean term?

Thank you


2011/12/6 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>

> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:27:40AM +0100, stephane altazin wrote:
> > It works very well puting my datas in a file and passing that in the
> > command line, the only problem is when i try using stdin, maybe the
> problem
> > comes from the ascii code for ctrl+z, whic is the command I need to use
> to
> > close the document, uner windows platform.
>
> Yes, that will probably get you a warning or error about the Ctrl+Z
> character.
>
> But typing in data by hand on stdin isn't all that useful, aside perhaps
> from quick testing.  The intention of supporting stdin input is that
> you can open a pipe to scriptindex and write data to index to it, and
> in that case the calling program can just close the pipe when it has
> done.
>
> > Another question about scriptindex theory. I understood that in Omega all
> > probabilistic terms are lowercase. But if I index them using an uppercase
> > prefix with scriptindex, will they be indexed probabilistically as it is
> > written in scriptindex documentation or like a boolean term as it is
> > written in the omega documentation.
>
> Probabilistic terms can have prefixes too.  If anything in the omega
> documentation suggests otherwise, can you point it out please, and we
> can fix it.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>