[Zope] Ignore stopwords/characters in alphabetical results

[Ken Ara]

Thanks Dieter and others for helping me understand
this problem. 

In the end I added the following code to my product:

    def norm_title(self):
        """Returns a normalized copy of the title for
sorting purposes"""

        nt = ''

        if hasattr(self, 'title'):
                nt = re.sub('^A |^An |^The |\W', ' ',
self.title)
                nt = join(split(nt))

        return nt

I then added a norm_title index to my ZCatalog for
sorting. I'm a regex newbie so any improvements are
welcome!

Thanks,

Ken


--- Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:

> Ken Ara wrote at 2006-2-2 00:41 -0800:
> >I have been asked to improve the order of search
> >results, so that stop words and certain characters
> at
> >the beginning of a title are ignored. "Final
> Report",
> >"The Final Report" and "[Final] Report" all need to
> >appear under the letter 'F'. 
> 
> Thus, you only want the change the result order.
> 
> Unless you want relevancy ranking (which is not the
> case,
> depending on your description), ordering has nothing
> to
> do with the indexes (at least not the text indexes).
> 
> Ordering can be done with "sequence.sort"
> (documented in
> the Zope Online help system) or with Python's "sort"
> method.
> In both cases, you can provide your own comparison
> function.
> The comparison faction to use the vocabulary to
> check for
> stopwords (words not known by the vocabulary are
> stopwords).
> 
> -- 
> Dieter
> 


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