Even without 'interesting' slops, it does appear that SpanNearQuery is a logical AND of all its clauses. I was distracted by the BooleanQuery examples in the javadocs :)
thanks, Peter On 8/6/07, Erick Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > >
