Re: Wildcard searches with * or ? as the first character - Thanks

2007-03-14 Thread Oystein Reigem
Thanks Steven and Antony. I read the FAQ not very long ago, but that slipped my attention. Or perhaps it's a recent change. - Øystein - -- Øystein Reigem, The department of culture, language and information technology (Aksis), Allegt 27, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. Tel: +47 55 58 32 42. Fax: +47

Wildcard searches with * or ? as the first character

2007-03-13 Thread Oystein Reigem
Hi, I have read that with Lucene it is not possible to do wildcard searches with * or ? as the first character. Wildcard searches with * as the first character (or both first and last character) are useful for text in languages that have a lot of compound words, like German and the Scandinavi

Re: Highlighting of original documents

2007-03-13 Thread Oystein Reigem
mething that not just extracts the text, but keeps track of its position in the original? I saw POI <http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/> mentioned in a posting on this list. Perhaps a solution for Word documents can be based on POI. - Øystein - - Mark Oystein Reigem wrote: Hi, I want t

Highlighting of original documents

2007-03-13 Thread Oystein Reigem
Hi, I want to implement fulltext search on a collection of documents. I try to figure out which system is the better choice - eXist, or Lucene, or some combination of the two. I have some knowledge of eXist, but don't know too much about Lucene. I'd like to display the result of a search as