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I'm trying to determine the best way to index facets with multiple values. For example, let's say we have several books and we want an Author facet where one can filter the books by the author. The problem is each book can have multiple authors. Is there a way to index multiple author names into a single value slot for each book? I see there is a Xapian::StringListSerialiser class that

...ailable on CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/dist/SWISH-Prog-KSx/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/SWISH-Prog-Xapian/ These Perl implementations offer KinoSearch[1] or Xapian[2] as alternate backend libraries. SWISH::Prog::Xapian should build indexes compatible with the swish_xapian tool that comes with libswish3. Feedback welcome. [0] They are "early" because libswish3 1.0 has not yet been released. [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/KinoSearch-0.30_07/ [2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Search-Xapian/ -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . peter at peknet.com

Newbie-alert: I'm just getting started on a new project involving a full text search requirement, and my initial investigation points to xapian being the way to go. Two questions: - eventually I'll most likely be indexing towards 50 million documents - is this reasonable to expect or attempt with xapian? - each of my documents come with a set of attributes. These are easily stored