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Hi guys I've just had a thought about something we do with our search on ReportBuyer.com: we cater for both American and British English in our searches and we have had plans for a while now to implement something that allows users to find 'colour' and 'color', 'tap' and 'faucet' by doing some clever programming. Looking at the Xapian docs, though,...

...source on how to implement Xapian at a more strategic level, and how to achieve various common use cases well in each of the supported languages. > > So I was wondering: do you have any thoughts on improving this and would > you like some help? I use Xapian a fair bit (mostly on > www.reportbuyer.com) together with a new wrapper for our CMS and have a > bit of spare time. I'd be happy to write up examples of how to use some > of the bindings, particularly PHP as that's my area. I'd also be happy to contribute. A cookbook type format could be worth considering, like http:...

Hi guys In our implementation of Xapian for one of our sites, we index the title, subtitle, summary and table of contents of around 200,000 products on ReportBuyer.com. When we create each Xapian doc to index this information, we apply a weighting to each of these 'fields' and add these to the doc using index_text with the second parameter passing in a weighting. I've been asked if it's possible to narrow queries to just a particular field (t...

...s that came up is that we'd love Xapian to become really lot more popular but have found that the documentation's a bit difficult to get into, as is the API. So I was wondering: do you have any thoughts on improving this and would you like some help? I use Xapian a fair bit (mostly on www.reportbuyer.com) together with a new wrapper for our CMS and have a bit of spare time. I'd be happy to write up examples of how to use some of the bindings, particularly PHP as that's my area. > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:55:32 -0700 > From: Kevin Duraj <kevinduraj at gmail.co...