Question

I have a database of information that is tagged using XML. The XML represents a hierarchy that I would like to account for in search and query. For example, if the data is book metadata:

<book>
    <author id="jd112">John Doe</author>
    <title>John's First Publication</title>
    <summary>This is a mundane memoir of John's life that no one else would care to read </summary>
</book>

I’ll have tons of such XML documents. I would like searchers to restrict queries to specific fields. I would like to also allow searchers to do logical combinations of those.

Does Lucene/Solr provide such an ability, or should I be looking at some other technology?
If Lucene it is, a pointer to how I might go about this would be helpful.

Thanks for your insights.

-Raj

Answer 1

Yes, and it is the best way to use it, but documents should be reformatted possibly

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/08/09/solr-indexing-xml-with-lucene-andrest.html

and google about configuring schema.xml