I think this is probably the closest thing I like to/am able to do now. If I ever get to do this, I'll share the idea/code and seek review and suggestions. Thank you very much, Mark, and all others that have helped! -James
mark harwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the HitCollector approach was fine but needed a couple of changes: 1) use a PriorityQueue subclass in place of the SortedSet to keep only the top n scoring docs 2) multiply lucene score by a distance measurement based on the current doc's location (doc location being read from a cached array of type Location[reader.maxDoc] ) Cheers Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
