Xapian > xapian-discuss > December 2004

Hello, i'm looking for a search engine for a new web appliaction that we are developing at the moment. I took a first look at xapian and it looks very promising. The only thing i need are searches ...

I've been working on allowing Btree tags to be compressed using zlib, and it's now working sufficiently well that some external testing would be useful (a patch to xapian-core 0.8.4.0 is attached). ...

Sorry if this is the wrong forum to discuss Search::Xapian issues -- this just seems like the best place.. Anyways, I've been testing out using $db- add_database() when searching, and it seems like ...

Hello, On certain xapian dbs (my two largest ones, hrm) I cannot write data to them anymore, without my import perl script aborting... Searches on both these dbs seemingly work fine. Size of files in ...

I've uploaded Xapian 0.8.5: http://www.xapian.org/download.php This release mostly consists of minor bugfixes to 0.8.4. Additionally, quartzcompact now allows non-full compaction, while full ...

Hello, I am compiling Xapian in a non-GNU/GCC environment (windows, that is), and run into one minor problem. The problematic line of code is in backends\quartz\btree.h 549: static const ...

hello, i was playing with various ideas around hit-highlighting and have a version via python that parses the documents (html in this case) and performs regx to surround the highlighted terms with a ...

I've uploaded Xapian 0.8.4: http://www.xapian.org/download.php There are three important changes. The first is a change to the preferred way of opening a database - the existing way will still work; ...

When trying to build xapian 0.8.4, I saw this build error. Appareantly btree.cc depended on xapian.h to include iostream? This is with the zlib-patch applied btree.cc: In member function `bool ...

The box which handles mail for lists.xapian.org isn't accepting mail. It looks like spamassassin has wedged, holding all the allowed open SMTP connections (and most of the memory). Mailman doesn't ...

Hi! I would like to use the lists of stopwords provided with Xapian. Are there some standard way to remove stopwords automatically, or should I implement it mysel in the indexer? Regards, Georges ...

I received the following output: 1706993 Exception: New revision too low What does that mean? Thanks, Jim.

Hi! I need to iterate over pairs of terms to compute the term correlation matrix. My first attempt was: for(term1 = db.allterms_begin(); term1 != db.allterms_end(); ++term1){ for(term2 = term1 + 1; ...

I think other people may find this useful (or at least interesting) so I'll reply to the xapian-discuss list and quote liberally. It would be hard to bound the work to a specified length of time, ...