[Xapian-discuss] Giving weights to terms

[James Aylett]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 07:01:46AM +0000, David wrote:

> Is it possible to give more weights to terms that I *know* are more
> important?

When you are indexing in your own code (as opposed to using omindex,
for instance), you can specify a 'wdfinc' (basically the weight of the
term) to the Document::add_posting() and Document::add_term()
methods. See the documentation for details, but basically it's an
extra parameter after the term (for add_term) or term and position
(for add_posting).

If you're indexing using scriptindex, you can use the weight= action
to change the wdfinc, but this isn't as granular, because it applies
to the indexing of an entire scriptindex input field.

J

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