Jamie D wrote:> Hi,
>
> I am just about to start indexing a huge amount of data so I want to
> make sure I get it right before starting.
>
> 1. Am I right in thinking that to index a document Xapian must be
> passed each word in a document separately along with the position the
> word appears in the text?
Not necessarily. A call to QueryParser parses a complete
document.>
>
> 2. Is is possible to index text using C++ or the perl bindings and
> then search this same database using the PHP bindings and will there
> be any problems doing this?
Yes. It works fine and there are no problems using any of the bindings
to search or index. Truely a mix and match situation.>
> 3. Lastly, is it possible to index on one machine, then copy the
> database files to another machine and search them without any issues?
On the same architecture, yes. I don't know about moving from say,
Power PC to Intel ia32 for instance. >
> Thanks,
> Jamie
>
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