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Is office 2007 formats like docx supported? Is there anyway to get xapian to index office 2007 formats? Is there any option/procedure to add a new mime plugin? For example if you rename a docx .zip ...

Guys, I was just playing around and added a bit of code to omindex.cc so I could ocr tiff and tif with gocr which seems to work. Here's what it looks like: // Tiff: } else if (startswith(mimetype, ...

Hi, We're looking to deploy Xapian as a search solution for a website that's run across a number of load-balanced web servers. However, I've not seen any clear indication in the documentation as to ...

Hi, i wonder is it possible to make contextual search via xapian? I tried with this way: index all keywords into 1 database with omega, structure like: name = searchable, url Then i put text into ...

I've uploaded Xapian 1.0.7, which as usual you can download from: http://xapian.org/download This release fixes an assortment of bugs, and improves efficiency in a few cases. It's intended to be a ...

Hello Xapianistas, I'm having trouble installing the libs for Xapian on a debian etch box , there seem to be packages for libxapian-perl for other versions of debian and for ubuntu but not for etch. ...

Hi! Everytime I think I've got the xapian search for MusicBrainz licked I ask for more feedback and my community finds yet another test case that throws a monkey-wrench into my project. And the more ...

Hi. I have a Xapian database which appears to be corrupt. I know this is a long shot, but I'm wondering if there's any way to repair it. Why do I think it's corrupt? Let me present some evidence. If ...

I'm getting some surprising (to me) ordering of results. An example below: Query string is: grand theft auto four Parsed query is: Xapian::Query((Zgrand:(pos=1) OR Ztheft:(pos=2) OR Zauto:(pos=3) OR ...

hi all, is there a option for search through specific fields? i want have a document and want add a field "firstname" with value "foo" and a field "lastname" with value "bar". how can i filter by ...

Anyone used Flax to search for docx? I'm testing on XP. Installed msxml6.msi and FilterPackx86.exe but Flax dosen't seem to register *.docx as a document type. Is there a way for me to add it in? ...

We're indexing our game database and want to return Grand Theft Auto IV when someone searches for Grand Theft Auto 4 (and vice versa) - would using synonyms for roman numerals be appropriate here or ...

Dose the xapian object allow to define a special MatchDecider in php-Bindings? If can, Is there any documents refer to? thanks much! Sometime, I need to put the new documents before the older ...

i used to use document.add_term("term"); to associate document with a term that did not appear in html, but add_term function might have changed, as i no longer get results for associated terms. what ...

I've added an entry to the FAQ about the many Python wrappers now available for Xapian, in an attempt to help new users work out which Python interface to Xapian would be sensible for them to use. ...

Has anyone made a Ruby Gem of Xapian (and its Ruby bindings)? Francis

My saga of tweaking Xapian to work right for me continues -- last night I figured out the core issue that I am having and I'm hoping you folks can direct me how to tweak xapian to make it behave ...

This came across my queue from another list. http://www2008.org/papers/pdf/p387-zhangA.pdf Looks at index compression schemes. Would love to hear comments from those on this list. -- Peter Karman . ...

I'm giving a talk about the Ruby on Rails Xapian plugin (called acts_as_xapian) tomorrow in London. http://lrug.org/meetings/2008/06/19/july-2008-meeting/ Although actually I'll be talking lots about ...