[Zope-dev] TextIndex Questions

R. David Murray bitz@bitdance.com
Wed, 31 May 2000 14:17:40 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 28 May 2000, Chris Withers wrote:
> > may be queried with a simple boolean query language that allows 
> > 'and', 'or', phrasing, parenthesized boolean expressions, and 
> > proximity matching. Relevance ranking is supported and returns the
> > sum of the occurances of all query terms in the "hit". A normalized 
> > score is also provided that is normalized from 0 to 100 over the 
> > whole result set.
> 
> This sounds really useful...
> 
> Is it still true?

I believe Michel said that the code for all this was still in
ZCatalog but had not been tested.  'and' and 'or' work, but the
rest I'm not sure about.  And no, as far as I know it's not documented
anywhere, unless someone put something in the interfaces wiki.

--RDM