> I'm implementing Solr for a course and book search service
> for college
> students, and I'm running into some issues with the
> highlighting plugin.
> After a few minutes of tinkering, searching on Google,
> searching the group
> archives and not finding anything, I thought I would see if
> anyone else is
> having this problem and if not what I am doing to cause
> it.
>
> Basically, the issue is that whenever I turn on
> highlighting for a certain
> field, I get either (1) inconsistent highlights or (2)
> bizarre highlight
> output for some of the results. A few of the results look
> correct.
>
> Here's my solrconfig.xml: http://pastie.org/private/iz3fd77innxb5r2v63zpa
>
> Broken output: http://pastie.org/private/pyptpektckitp2piqvcgw
>
> As you can see, I searched for "history". In the results, a
> few times that
> the query is highlighted, you'll see that the name fields
> contain strings
> such as
> "<span>History</span><span>History</span><span>History</span>
> ", instead of just highlighting it once.
>
> I don't have the knowledge to understand why Solr would
> treat "African
> American History: From Emancipation to the Present"
> differently than "African
> American Women's History", other than one is longer than
> the other, or why
> it would double or quadruple the highlighted response. I
> tried to figure out
> what configuration option could change this, to no avail.
>
> If anyone has any input, I would be very grateful. Thank
> you!
Thats really strange. Can you provide us field type definition of text field.
And full search URL that caused that output. And the solr version.
