Being new to xml/xslt/solr, I am hoping someone can explain/help me with the following:

I am using Apache-Solr for searching a document. Solr returns the search result in XML, and has xslt support. I am using a php page for submitting the search, and display the result in html.

I indexed a 1.5MB size pdf document (400 pages). Using the admin interface with *:* query everything is there.

I then try using highlighting in the query, and modified the xsl file to return the highlighting.
It works fine for the text in the beginning of the document. I can query with a phrase between " " and it returns the exact match.

When searching content approx. beyond the first 100 pages, I see this behavior:
I must include common words in a phrase to get a result returned. For example if I search using the word handymen, that only appears in one place towards the end of the document, nothing is returned, but if I add a common word that appears in the sentence where handymen is; e.g. 'handymen that', then both are returned in the highlighting including many other occurrences of 'that'. If I query with "handymen that", nothing is returned.

I don't know if it is a Solr bug or if I am doing something wrong.

thanks
Ben

Hi,

Solr returns the xml and the xslt formats it to HTML. What does your returning XML look like? What are you expecting as results? We would need to see a sample snippet of the xml and the part of the XSLT that you use to generate the highlighted results. Perhaps provide a small example would help.

Regards,

Thank's for the reply.
I also posted my question on the solr user list. I had to increase the <maxFieldLength> element in solrconfig.xml, and then it worked.
Bent