On 7/31/06, Simon Willnauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I do have a question about fields with empty content should be added
to the document / index or not. I do have a index schema, which
defines all field a document can have. if one of the real documents
has no content for a certain fiel
eld during indexing, and put a dummy value it in instead of am empty
string.
Otis
- Original Message
From: Simon Willnauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:11:22 PM
Subject: Re: Index empty fields
Hi Otis,
well if i have to such
Hi Otis,
well if i have to such a query I need a "dummy" value. To point that
out a bit more in detail...
A xml document has "n" mandatory elements described by a schema or
dtd. Some of the could have empty values. Would it make any difference
to the index / searching if I just index an empty st
Hi Simon,
If you want to be able to run a "give me all documents that have an empty field
F", then you'll actually have to stuff a "dummy" value when no real value for
field F is present. If you have an index schema, perhaps that's a good place
to add a 'defaultValue'-type attribute with that
