On 19 Sep 2000, at 6:33, Bill Moseley wrote:

> I have a few questions here:
> 
> Stop words:
> -----------
> 
> For phrase highlighting I need to know what stop words were used to create
> the index.  I'd like a switch that would make swish print stopwords when
> printing the headers.  I'm not sure what the best swish letter would be.
> -W is too close to -w, perhaps.
> 
> swish -x -f index.file
> Stopwords: and if the a an
> 
> -x could be used to say "extended headers" and so if -x was used additional
> headers such as Wordcharacters, IgnoreFirst, and Stopwords would be included
> in the header display.
> 
> Does -x seem like a good switch letter for this?
> 
> BTW -- if there was enough info stored in the index headers, I could see
> reindexing an index just by saying:
> 
>    swish-e -C -f index.file
> 
> 
> 
> Library version of swish-e and reindexing:
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Does SwishOpen() really open the index file?  Or is the file opened and
> closed on each search?
> 
> I ask this as I could see a mod_perl application where SwishOpen() is
> called once on the first request, but then the index is left open for the
> life of the Apache child process.  So if the file was reindexed you might
> end up searching an old index file until that Apache child dies.
> 
> Perhaps SwishSearch() could stat the index file to see if it changed on
> disk and reopen?  Or maybe it would be better for the application to stat
> the index file and look for changes.
> 
> 
> Multiple indexes:
> -----------------
> When searching multiple indexes swish processes one index file at a time.
> You end up with headers like:
> 
>   # Search words: ( foo )
>   # Number of hits: 13
> 
> For each index file searched with results mixed in between.
> 
> Is there anyway to process multiple index files as if they are a merged
> index file?  That is, get one set of headers where Number of hits: is equal
> to the total hits of all index files (and where the -b sort would sort ALL
> the results)?
> 
> I have two index files -- on is indexed once a week, and the other is
> indexed whenever a new entry is made during the week.  I don't want to
> merge the weekly index with the incremental index every time a new entry is
> made.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Bill Moseley
> mailto:moseley@hank.org
>