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Two questions about searching ...
1.) Is there a way to browse dump or explore the build-in knowledge bases?
2.) We programmed stored procedures that returns a table with hits, containing among other things also a short abstract of the documents with highlighted search expressions (like google).
We perform roughly the following sequence of queries:
NumHits := CTXSYS.CTX_QUERY.count_hits(idx,QueryString,TRUE);
OPEN SearchCursor FOR SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ score(1),title,url,summary,content_length,
TO_CHAR(date_last_modified,'DD. Mon YYYY'), content_type, pk FROM directives
WHERE CONTAINS (url, QueryString,1)>0 ORDER BY SCORE(1) DESC;
… and then for each hit line
ctx_doc.highlight( index_name => indx, textkey => key, text_query => query,
restab => res, -- out-parameter
plaintext => false -- html
Is there a more elegant way to get documents and the positions of the query expression therein with one function call? Or is there a way to directly access the indices?

Answer 1

I've had to do that before as well... and I ended up doing it pretty much exactly the same as you just described... I was only highlighting one row though - does this scale ok?
- Also, Oracle have now created an Oracle Text specific forum (a few down from the interMedia link), you should post this question in there for some better help