[Xapian-discuss] Re: PHP functions in Ubuntu packages

[Fabrice Colin]

On 11/22/06, Francis Irving <francis at flourish.org> wrote:
> Oh yes, there's one interesting thing that using Xapian as the main
> database has bought up. I'm making more extensive use of "metadata"
> (i.e.  prefixed keywords such as Da60pv94) using QueryParser. For some
> meta-data would really like to have punctuation in keywords. e.g.
> A/60/PV.57 instead of a60pv57. Sometimes the punctuation matters, and
> I don't like the hack of replacing it with "x".
>
> Am I correct that keywords can only contain alphanumeric characters,
> even if (for example) quoted? Is this something that has bothered
> other people, or just me?
>
Yes, it has bothered other people too :-) For instance, the query "set_data"
generates two terms.

I wonder if the list of word-splitting characters could be made configurable in
the QueryParser...

Fabrice