: I understand how that recommendation could potentially cover fields with : undesired terms mixed in with the desired terms. I fail to see that it : covers the case where the undesired term(s) are last, i.e. "desired desired : undesired." Could you please elaborate? Thanks!
my bad ... you are correct, there would be a false positive in that case. "out of the box" i think you would have index a marker token at the end of hte field and include it in your SpanNear. in general, even if you were going to write a custom query, the lucene index structure makes it very easy/fast to find matches on specific tokens, but finding the absence of something (A not followed by anything, or a purely negative boolean query) doesn't fit with the way things are set up -- so workarrounds have to be found ... using a MatchAllDocsQuery works well when dealing with purely negative queries, using a marker term to denote the end of a value works well in this case. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
