[Xapian-discuss] Sorting by a custom expr

[James Aylett]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:00:27AM -0300, Carlos Pita wrote:

> I need to keep a fixed relevance number for each document which is
> precalculated from "business variables" external to the query. Call
> it brel and then call qrel the relevance coming from the query,
> which would be calculated by xapian.  brel and qrel are combined in
> an expression like (B * brel + Q * qrel), with B and Q constants, to
> obtain the final relevance according to which the documents
> (products) must be sorted.

You should be able to do this with a custom weighting class. This
isn't supported in most of the bindings yet, but it'll work from C++.

Cheers,
James

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