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#1 2009-03-08 01:11:20
- els
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search_result_excerpt 'limit' attribute
Can someone clarify the workings of the limit attribute in <txp:search_result_excerpt />? I suspect that Textbook is not quite correct, or is it? I’ve always thought that it determined the maximum number of highlighted matches in a search result excerpt, but now that I’m checking that on my site, it doesn’t seem to be the case, I’m not using the limit attribute so it should return it’s default value of 5 matches maximum, but if there are more it displays more (but not all)…
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#2 2009-03-08 02:25:20
- rsilletti
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Re: search_result_excerpt 'limit' attribute
The code, as I understand it, uses the value of $limit to set the maximum returned article body excerpts or segments matched and truncated within a returned result, hilighting is done by regular expression after the return value is defined (there can be more than 5 hilights because more than one search term match can exist within the 50 char spans of the excerpt).
The number of returned search results is set by the article $limit value, given that it is used in an article form.
Textbook is, in fact, correct though I might consider revising the wording for hilight to:
“HTML tag to be used for search term matches in excerpt text, without brackets. “
And limit to:
“Maximum number of search match excerpts per search result.”
Last edited by rsilletti (2009-03-08 02:29:50)
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Re: search_result_excerpt 'limit' attribute
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#4 2009-03-08 14:20:02
- els
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Re: search_result_excerpt 'limit' attribute
rsilletti wrote:
The code, as I understand it, uses the value of $limit to set the maximum returned article body excerpts or segments matched and truncated within a returned result
Ah, that makes it very clear, thanks Rick!
Bloke wrote:
Done.
You beat me to it. That was why I was asking… Thanks :)
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