[Bug 3746] [FT] Description of FTStemOption

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3746

           Summary: [FT] Description of FTStemOption
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Working drafts
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Full Text
        AssignedTo: jim.melton@acm.org
        ReportedBy: holstege@mathling.com
         QAContact: public-qt-comments@w3.org


== Section 3.2.3 (FTStemOption)

Second paragraph:
<blockquote>
FTStemOption influences the way FTWords is applied. It produces a disjunction
of the query tokens by expanding the tokens into the list of tokens that share
the same stem. By definition, the query tokens are included in that
disjunction.
</blockquote>

This is a very prescriptive way to describe stemming, and not necessarily what
implementations will do. Further, if we mean stemming to explain how query
tokens are produced, the final sentence ("by definition") is at best
meaningless, and more likely just wrong. 

Proposal: Drop the paragraph entirely.

Received on Monday, 18 September 2006 19:54:10 UTC