Make sure you also use the PropertyNames directive in your config file. 
I had a similar question when I first started with SWISHE:


----------------

I recant; I had to re-index (I added all the requisite WordCharacter 
parameters
to my config file). Now it works as expected. Thanks, David!

pek

Peter Karman wrote:


 >> Thanks. That didn't help, unfortunately. I get the same results: nada.
 >>
 >> pek
 >>
 >> David L Norris wrote:
 >>
 >>
 >
 >>>>On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 09:58, Peter Karman wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>
 >>>>>>I'm indexing with the -S prog option. It seems to be working fine 
from the
 >>>>>>indexing point of view, since the pubnumber is successfully 
captured from the
 >>>>>>HTML files. However, I seem to be missing the trick when it comes 
to searching
 >>>>>>on pubnumber content. I've read the documentation (several times).
 >>
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>You might simply need to add _-. to WordCharacters.
 >>>>See WORDCHARS definition in swish-e/src/config.h if the below
 >>>>WordCharacters line is scrambled in my email (and ignore the line
 >>>>wrapping).
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>Try this config and see what happens:
 >>>>
 >>>>% cat swish-default.conf
 >>>># include the PUBNUMBER meta value for each file
 >>>>MetaNames PUBNUMBER
 >>>>
 >>>># save the PUBNUMBER in the index so its search-able
 >>>>PropertyNames PUBNUMBER
 >>>>
 >>>># minimum word length
 >>>>MinWordLimit 3
 >>>>
 >>>># Valid characters found in "words"
 >>>>WordCharacters
 >>>>_-.0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzB*B:C
CCCC	CC
 >>>>CCCCCCCCC C"C$C&C(C*C,C.C0C2C4C6C9C;C=C?
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >
 >>
 >>


Julie Wetherill waxed lyrical on 1/15/04 5:10 PM:

> Apologies for what must be a newbie question, but I didn't find anything in 
> the SWISH-e archives.
> 
> I'm testing the indexing/retrieval of metadata in my documents (html and 
> pdf). I set up a swish-e conf file that includes this directive:
> 
> MetaNames description keywords
> 
> and have a small number of html files containing metadata tags, for example:
> 
> <meta name="description" content="acquisitions">
> <meta name="keywords" content="printing">
> 
> When I run a search from the command line that includes a metaname, e.g.:
> 
> swish-e -w description=acquisitions -f metadata.index
> 
> I get the error:
> 
> # SWISH format: 2.2.3
> # Search words: description=acquisitions
> err: Unknown metaname: 'description'
> 
> I know the indexing of these documents is working. I can search for the 
> metadata values as plain text and get results. But searching by any 
> metaname that I define in the conf file always fails with the above error.
> 
> I have tried enclosing description=acquisitions in single/double quotes, 
> same outcome. I also have pdfs that by default contain some Dublin Core 
> metadata tags (e.g., "dc:description"). I'm hoping these also can be 
> handled via the MetaNames directive, but I can't even get the simple html 
> metadata tags to work. What is wrong here? And assuming I can fix the 
> simple case, does anyone know if the DC metadata will work using MetaNames?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide.  --julie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ===============================================================
> Julie Wetherill
> Office for Information System
> Harvard University Library
> 1280 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 404
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> 

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Peter Karman - Software Publications Engineer - Cray Inc
phone: 651-605-9009 - mailto:karman@cray.com