Overview of Configuration Options

The following lists the main options you can set in the word query configuration to control how word queries are resolved in a database:

• By default, all elements are included in the word query configuration and the indexing options are the same as the database indexing options.

• All word query configurations are set on a per-database basis.

• The word query configuration controls the behavior of the cts:word-query, cts:words, and cts:word-match APIs. This includes controlling the words that get indexed, as well as controlling the words that are returned from the filter (evaluator) portion of query evaluation.

• Word query inherits the database index settings as a starting point for its index settings.

• You cannot turn off indexing options that are enabled in the database settings.

• If you check index options in word query that are enabled in the database, it will not change any behavior. However, if you subsequently disable a database index setting that is checked in the word query settings, it will remain for the word query.

• You can include and/or exclude named elements from word queries.

• For any element you include, you can optionally constrain it by a value for a specified attribute.

• For any element you include, you can optionally specify a weight. The weight is used when determining relevance scores, where a weight greater than 1.0 will boost scores and a weight lower than 1.0 will lower scores for matches within the element.