Yeah I've come across that Lucene capability. Unfortunately, we are doing the search using database search. U have any more suggestions or ideas? Thanks for the reply.
Sertic Mirko, Bedag wrote: > > Hi > > How are you doing the search? Is it a database search, or > are u using lucene, for instance? With lucene, you can use > she search result highlighter to generate html, and then > output it in your jsp/jsf page... > > Regards > Mirko > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: kewldude [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. August 2007 07:13 > An: users@myfaces.apache.org > Betreff: Search Highlighting > > > I know this is a little bit off topic here, but I need to ask it here > because > I'm using MyFaces in this project, so here it goes... > > I need to present a dataTable that represents search results coming from a > search query (query of books, articles,documents etc. ). Lets say I have 4 > columns to display (KeyNumber,Author,Title,Subject), within those columns > I > need to highlight the exact words that the user used in > querying/searching. > Lets say the user searched for Bert Bates. > > The dataTable will be presented somewhat like this: > > KeyNumber Author > > Title Subject > 00001 Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Elisabeth Freeman Head > First > Design Pattern Certifications,Java > 00002 Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates > Head First Java Java, OOP > > As you can see, the column where the search query has a match is not > highlighted completely. Only the > words that match up with the search string itself. Can this be done using > MyFaces? I hope you can provide some ideas and suggestions as to what > approach I can use or investigate. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Search-Highlighting-tf4339753.html#a12362158 > Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Search-Highlighting-tf4339753.html#a12363190 Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
