Hierachical documents is a key concept towads a unified structured+unstructured search. It should allow us to fully implement things such as XQuery + Full-Text (http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-full-text/)
Additionally it solves a century old problem: how to deal with section/sub-sections in very large documents. Long time ago I was indexing text books (in PDF) and had to break down the book into pages and store the main doc id in a field as pointer to maintain the relation. Mark, way to go! -- Joaquin On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > Very cool stuff, Mark. > > Can you just open a JIRA and attach there? > > On May 10, 2010, at 8:38 AM, mark harwood wrote: > >> I've put up code, example data and tests for the Nested Document feature >> here: http://www.inperspective.com/lucene/LuceneNestedDocumentSupport.zip >> >> The data used in the unit tests is chosen to illustrate practical use of >> real-world content. >> The final unit tests will work on more abstract data for more >> formal/exhaustive testing of functionality. >> >> This packaging changes no existing Lucene code and is bundled with 3.0.1 but >> should work with 2.9.1. The readme.txt highlights the issues with segment >> flushing that may need addressing before adoption. >> >> >> Cheers >> Mark >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
