I have downloaded the Lucene (core, 2.3.1) code and created a project using Eclipse (pointing to src/java) to use it. That works fine, along with the contrib highlighter jar file from the standard distribution.
I have also successfully added an additional Eclipse project for the (standard) Highlighter, pointing to ..contrib/highlighter/src/java . I can use this project instead of the standard highlighter jar file and that works fine too. I am having trouble figuring out how to apply the patch (assuming that's possible) to get the SpanHighlighter functionality. When I try to apply the patch using team->apply patch and pointing to the patch xml file, I am getting errors that seem to imply that the patch is looking for things under contrib/highlighter.... which it can't find. I admit to knowing very little about patches; I am just interested in getting the SpanHighlighter functionality. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you. Donna Gresh
