On 8/16/07, Alf Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2007, at 17:20, Alf Eaton wrote: > > > When searching a multiValued field, is it possible to know which of > > the multiple fields the match was in? > > > > For example if I have an index of documents, each of which has > > multiple image captions stored in separate fields, I'd like to be > > able to link from the search results to the caption in the original > > document. > > > > One possibility could be attaching metadata to a field, similar to > > payloads for terms. At the moment all I can think of is adding > > metadata inside the stored field and stripping that out when it's > > indexed and displayed, but that's not ideal. > > Actually on reflection all this would need would be for the > Highlighter to add a field to the response, saying which item of the > multiValued field the match was in. Is that possible?
Could you perhaps index the captions as #1 this is the first caption #2 this is the second caption And then when just look for #n in the highlighted results? For display, you could also strip out the #n in the captions. -Yonik
