If you can represent your books in XML, then MarkLogic could do the job very cleanly. It isn't free, but it is very good.
wunder On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Jason Funk wrote: > Is there a better tool than Solr to use for my situation? > > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > >> There is no simple, obvious, and direct approach, right out of the box. >> Sure, you can highlight passages of raw text, right out of the box, but that >> won't give you chapters, pages, and line numbers. To do all of that, you >> would have to either: >> >> 1. Add chapter, page, and line number as part of the payload for each word. >> And add some custom document transformers to access the information. >> or >> 2. Index each line as a separate Solr document, with fields for book, >> chapter, page, and line number. >> >> -- Jack Krupansky >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Jason Funk >> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:02 PM >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Book text with chapter line number >> >> Hello. >> >> I'm trying to figure out if Solr is going to work for a new project that I >> am wanting to build. At it's heart it's a book text searching application. >> Each book is broken into chapters and each chapter is broken into lines. I >> want to be able to search these books and return relevant sections of the >> book and display the results with chapter and line number. I'm not sure how >> I would structure my data so that it's efficient and functional. I could >> simply treat each line of text as a document which would provide some of the >> functionality but what if the search query spanned two lines? Then it seems >> the passage the user was searching for wouldn't be returned. I could treat >> each book as a document and use highlighting to find the context but that >> seems to limit weighting/results for best matches as well as difficultly in >> finding chapter/line numbers. What is the best way to do this with Solr? >> >> Is there a better tool to use to solve my problem? > -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org
