Xapian discuss - Dec 2007 - Boosting fields in Xapian

Hi,

Just to forewarn, I'm coming from the Lucene world so I may not quite
get some of the paradigms here. Is there a way of boosting certain
areas of the indexed term set? I would like documents which have the
searched term in their title to be ranked higher than those which only
have it in the main body of their content. Is this possible?

Thanks
Rob

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:46:36AM +0000, Robert Young
wrote:
> Just to forewarn, I'm coming from the Lucene world so I may not quite
> get some of the paradigms here.
If you find "translations" for terminology you think others would find
useful, feel free to add them to the wiki.  A new "Lucene" section
here
would probably be a suitable place:

http://wiki.xapian.org/Phrasebook
> Is there a way of boosting certain areas of the indexed term set? I
> would like documents which have the searched term in their title to be
> ranked higher than those which only have it in the main body of their
> content. Is this possible?
Yes.  Variants on this question have been asked before, so I've written
a new FAQ entry to cover it:

http://wiki.xapian.org/FAQ#head-3c17843de2310bf942166d976b212acfce9ddc89

Let me know if it needs improving.

Cheers,
    Olly