[Exist-open] What is status of stopwords list?

[Doug B. <do...@we...>]

What is the current status and effect of using a stopwords list configured
in the <stopwords> element? I'd appreciate any general or specific insight
to the questions below. I have found  discussion archived in the exit-open
list of various problems with using a stopwords list, but no clear
resolutions, and can find no documentation on it. The default conf.xml in
the 1.2.4 download has a <stopwords file="stopword"/> element but there is
no default stopword file in the download.

 

1.	What should the format of a stopwords file be, e.g. one word per
line?
2.	How about character encoding? 
3.	What indexes does it only apply to? (The element is outside of the
fulltext element.) 
4.	What happens with &= queries that include both stopwords and
non-stopwords? 
5.	With no stopwords list, I always get an error log whenever I start
up the database. If I don't want a stoplist, can I simply comment out the
element, or should I provide an empty file,  I saw a email on the list where
I understood Wolfgang to recommend an empty list. 

 

Thanks,

Doug

 

 

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