Re: [htdig] Slashes and phrase searching.....

[Jim C. <li...@yg...>]

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 08:14 AM, Jonathan Schlackl wrote:

>   I have a small issue with slashes in phrases causing htsearch to 
> return
> 0 results - here's the phrase:
>  "UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Communications Framework"
>
>   Returns 0 results but when I search for:

I think that there is a problem with the parser that handles phrase 
queries. When HIV/AIDS is indexed, the slash is stripped and the second 
term and hivaids is added to the database (along with the individual 
components hiv and aids). However the phrase is not being treated in 
the same manner when provided as a query.

For a possible work-around, you might want to take a look at the 
following two attributes.

http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#valid_punctuation
http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#extra_word_characters

If you add '/' to extra_word_characters, the '/' should no longer be 
stripped during indexing. I think that you will also need to remove the 
'/' from valid_punctuation in order to get the results you are looking 
for.

Jim