Isn't a SpanAndQuery the same as a SpanNearQuery? Perhaps with "interesting" slops......
Erick On 8/6/07, Peter Keegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to create a fairly complex SpanQuery from a binary parse tree. > I create SpanOrQueries from SpanTermQueries and combine SpanOrQueries into > BooleanQueries. So far, so good. > The problem is that I don't see how to create a SpanNotQuery from a > BooleanQuery and a SpanTermQuery. I want the BooleanQuery to be the > 'include' span and the SpanTermQuery to be the 'exclude' span. > Unfortunately, the BooleanQuery cannot be cast to a SpanQuery. > > I thought that SpanQuery and BooleanQuery could be freely intermixed, but > this doesn't seem to be the case. It seems that what's really needed is a > 'SpanAndQuery'. > > Is there another way to build this type of query? > > Thanks, > Peter >