> why ruin a
> good beer with work?

wise words, switching to radioparadise.com and wtching the fire was much
more enjoyable, and with a noticible increase in success.

so my idea was to have these three metaaliases under which i could mix and
match different groups of real aliases. it sounds like (as usual) i have
missed the point. perhaps i will just make a metaalias that contains the
onse which all three share and then add the others at searchtime with OR.


Brad
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 Brad Miele
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 (866) 476-7862 x902
 bmiele@ipnstock.com

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and the users may use,
but the fixers must fix
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Peter Karman wrote:

> I think your problem (other than mixing beer and computers -- why ruin a
> good beer with work?) is that you've defined 'subject' as an alias more
> than once. Three times in fact. So swish-e doesn't know which meta
> (main_ad, main_ed or main_ne) to assign the words to.
>
> The idea with an alias is to let a *single* metaname be known by other
> names. You've duplicated the same aliases for different real metanames.
>
> hope those words are small enough. :)
>
> Brad Miele wrote on 11/13/04 8:30 PM:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to get meta alias to work on an index of xml files, and, well,
> > I am having some trouble. Granted, it's a Saturday night, and perhaps I
> > shouldn't have let the amber glow of a finely crafted Maine microbrew
> > tempt me to undertake this task, but I did.
> >
> > here is what I have in my conf:
> >
> > MetaNames main_ad main_ed main_ne
> > UndefinedMetaTags auto
> >
> > The defined Metas do not exist, but will be used as aliases later.
> >
> > then for aliases:
> >
> > MetaNameAlias main_ad subject photographer keywords orig_id limitkeys
> > MetaNameAlias main_ed subject photographer keywords orig_id limitkeys
> > MetaNameAlias main_ne subject photographer keywords orig_id short_caption
> >
> > when i try to run the indexer i get:
> >
> > err: MetaNameAlias - name 'subject' is already a MetaName or MetaNameAlias
> >
> > and yes, it is a meta name, but i thought the point was to roll existing
> > meta names into one.
> >
> > my goal is to be able to use subject=foo when i want, and main_ad=foo
> > also.
> >
> > so i am sure that i am mising it, and if you reply tonight, keep it to
> > small words, as i will be returning to the comfort of my beer for now.
> >
> > i guess if you reply tomorrow, do it it quietly.
> >
> > Brad
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Brad Miele
> >  Technology Director
> >  IPNStock
> >  bmiele@ipnstock.com
> >
> >  For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say
> > "Canada".  Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something.
> > 		-- Sandra Gotlieb, wife of the Canadian ambassador to
> > 		   the U.S.
> >
>
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>