Paul J. Lucas wrote:
From the documentation, there doesn't seem to be any way to
either create indexes using a "date" type or perform queries
using dates, e.g., find all those documents such that the
origDate element is later than X and earlier than Y.
So, can Xindice deal with dates?
- Paul
This is a limitation of XPATH. There is no facility
for date comparison (will be in a future version).
I got around this by specifying date/time in
"milliseconds since epoch" form. Numeric
values can be indexed and compared using
Xindice.
One can then apply a numeric (e.g. integer) index
to this element or attribute.
However, numeric indices for multi-byte values
are broken in xindice. I use a modified version
of xindice that I've patched to work correctly
for 0 and positive values (fixing the problem for
negative values is much more involved).
See bug 19203 - "ValueIndexer for Multi-Byte Numeric Types Broken"
<http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19203>for details of
the bug and the workaround I use.
-Terry
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