[Zope] search on www.zope.org

[R. David Murray]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, ethan mindlace fremen wrote:
> Actually, - is treated as a continuation (ala hyphen) so searching for
> dtmlin works fine.
> 
> _ is a stop word, so searching for "mod pcgi" works.
> 
> I'm going to note this on the search page.
> 
> I'm looking into changing this, but Splitter.c is a good description of
> the headache I get :)

If the index treats _ as punctuation or a stop, that would be more
or less OK as far as searching goes if the processing in the lookup
method for text indexes did the *same* splitting (you just have to
make sure it also ANDs (or better yet NEARS) the parts it splits).
This appears not to be the case, from this problem description and
my own experience.  IMO, this is a *serious* bug in ZCatalog, and
I put it in the collector a while ago.  In my experience cataloging
does not always happen correctly, either.  For instance, 'T-shirt'
as a text index input word does not appear to make the object
findable using the keyword 'shirt'.  (I have not tested the latter
behavior on 2.2 yet; I saw it on 2.1.4.)

--RDM