[Xapian-discuss] Search not finding queries with stop words.

[Jim Lynch]

I have a search in perl that looks a bit like:

     my $qp = new Search::Xapian::QueryParser();

     $qp->set_stemmer(new Search::Xapian::Stem("english"));
     $qp->set_stemming_strategy(STEM_SOME);
     $qp->set_default_op($defaultop);
...
     my $par = $qp->parse_query($query);
     my $enq = $xDatabase->enquire( $par );

and in the db create script:

my $stopper = Search::Xapian::SimpleStopper->new();
foreach my $word (@ar) {
     $stopper->add($word);
}

...
             my $doc     = Search::Xapian::Document->new();
             my $indexer = Search::Xapian::TermGenerator->new();
             my $stemmer = Search::Xapian::Stem->new('english');
             $doc->set_data($jsonText);
             $indexer->set_stemmer($stemmer);
             $indexer->set_stopper($stopper);
             $indexer->set_document($doc);
             $indexer->index_text($docBody);
             $indexer->increase_termpos();

             $indexer->index_text($subject);
... (other index_text and add_value calls)
             $xdb->add_document($doc);

If I look for something like index of elements, I get no results even 
though that phrase exists (no, I don't do a phrase search, just those 
three words separated by spaces).  However if I leave off the "of" I get 
the expected number of hits.  I'm guessing I have to remove the stop 
words from the query?  I default to OP_OR so I would think it would 
work.  Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks,
Jim.