Getting Started with Xapian 1.4

Note

Not all Xapian functionality is yet documented in this guide, so once you’ve gone through it you may wish to look at our online API documentation and also at some of the additional help available on the Xapian wiki.

• Introduction
  • Installation
  • Datasets and example code
  • Contributing
• Python Specific Notes
  • Exceptions
  • Unicode
  • Iterators
  • Non-Pythonic Iterators
  • MSet
  • ESet
  • Non-Class Functions
  • Query
  • MatchDecider
  • RangeProcessors
  • Apache and mod_python/mod_wsgi
• Core concepts
  • Concurrency
  • Indexing concepts
  • Search concepts
  • Introduction to IR
• A practical example
  • Indexing
  • Searching
• How To…
  • How to filter search results
  • Range queries
  • Facets
  • Sorting
  • Collapsing of Search Results
  • Spelling Correction
  • Synonyms
  • How to change how documents are scored
  • Iterate through all documents
• Advanced features
  • Posting sources
  • Tuning the Unigram Language Model: LMWeight
  • Custom Weighting Schemes
  • Xapian Administrator’s Guide
  • Scalability
  • Replication
  • Serialisation of Queries and Documents
• Deprecation of features
  • Deprecation
  • Features currently marked for deprecation
  • Features removed from Xapian
• Glossary
• License and authors