On Tuesday 25 September 2007 03:05, Martin Bayly wrote:
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> We have an application that performs searches against a Lucene based index
> and also against a Windows Desktop Search based index.
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> For simple queries we'd like to offer our users a consistent interface that
> allows them to build ba
: Search we need to translate the Lucene style query into a more traditional
: Boolean query. So this is the opposite of the much discussed Boolean Query
: to Lucene Query conversion.
it should be possible to translate, but like many translations there will
be a small loss of information, speci