Hi, is it possibile to use Lucene Highlighter classes to extract highlight spans instead of getting the "highlighted" string? I am using lucene 3.0.3 (and I cannot upgrade version for now).
I have the following snippet of code: QueryScorer scorer = new QueryScorer(highlightQuery); // already rewritten scorer.init(tokenStream); tokenStream.reset(); Highlighter highlighter = new Highlighter(formatter, scorer); highlighter.setTextFragmenter(fragmenter); // a NullFragmenter String bestFragments = highlighter.getBestFragments(tokenStream, textToHighlight, maxNumFragments, fragmentsSeparator); This returns the highlighted text (with html spans in it). Instead, I would like to be able to get only a list of "spans" (e.g. <4,10> <15,27> ...) that correspond to text positions (same positions read by tokenStream) to highlight. I need them because I have to merge lucene query highlight with some custom highlight info (already expressed as start/end spans) and it is very difficult to merge the two info if lucene gives me only the highlighted text. Is there a way to extract this information using only the user query, the text to highlight and the token stream of the search field? Thank you in advance. Bye *Raf*