Hoss, Thanks for your reply. You are correct. I am working with the Lucene Demo and trying to get some traction. But without much luck. Most postings on the list are way beyond me. I continue to research the literature in order to find something that will bring me gently forward so that I can begin to understand how to use Lucene. Not much luck so far.
I am in the process of teaching myself Java, so as the days go by things should become more clear. But about the results that Lucene produces . . . how do I begin to look at and then manipulate those results? I understand that Lucene is not an application, that I must develop the interface. But I do need to "intercept" the results and "manipulate" it in some way . . . Hunh????\ In any cas, thanks for your response. Robert On 7/3/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Question: how do I go about manipulating the search results? Is it possible : to "intercept" the listing of HTML pages returned by the Lucene search : function and modify the report it sends to the screen. : : Can this be as simple as adding a line to the Lucene Java code so that : instead of reporting a simple chapter number, it will report the chapter please bear in mind that Lucene is not an application, it is a library ... it will return you the results of a query as a datastructure which you can then dispplay in your application anyway you want. it sounds like you are looking at a particular chunk of example client code that does a search and prints some results to the screen (perhaps you are even looking at the demo that comes with lucene and is refered to in the "getting started" tutorial) ... if it is usefull to use that as a starting point for you application then by all means do so, but the Lucene library doesn't know (and doesn't care) how you are using the results it produces ... that's entirely up to you. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
