Hi Jens, Thanks for the reply.
What you say makes sense, but I'm hoping for a simpler implementation. I guess it boils down to this: When I conduct a search in ferret / AAF, I get an array of documents back. Somehow, the highlight method knows where the terms that were matched by the search exist in those documents / field. Is there anyway that I can get that information? I looked through the API and even the source and unfortunately, couldn't quite grok how it was happening. This will allow me to do the following, I can chunk together several distinct pieces of information into one field for the purpose of indexing. Then, if I know which terms were matched and their position in the field, I can use that information to figure out which piece of information in that single field it came from. For example, if my document has six figures, I take the caption text of those six figures and concatenate them all together and index them in one field, captions. Then, when the document comes back as a match, if I knew that the term "empire" matched whatever search query was used, and that the offset was 100 in my captions field, I could piece together which of the original illustrations it belongs to. Again, this is all necessary because I don't know in advance how many figures a given document may contain. I know this sounds overly complicated, but I think it's easier than creating a new model, a separate index and then having to search multiple times etc. Does this make sense, or am I going at this completely wrong? Thank you, -km _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
