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filtering content on index

hiddenkirby
Contributor

At a high level... how would one filter the content itself being indexed.

Example: i was indexing ..say.. xml docs and wanted to exclude the contents in a pair of xml tags.

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southeringtonp
Motivator

If the content will always follow a known pattern, you can use SEDCMD to filter out the text you don't want. Set the second part of the expression to be empty, e.g.: SEDCMD-abc = s/StringToThrowAway//.

Another possibility (at the event level) would be to create an entry in transforms.conf matching the information you want suppressed, and route it to a null queue. See here for an example.

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southeringtonp
Motivator

If the content will always follow a known pattern, you can use SEDCMD to filter out the text you don't want. Set the second part of the expression to be empty, e.g.: SEDCMD-abc = s/StringToThrowAway//.

Another possibility (at the event level) would be to create an entry in transforms.conf matching the information you want suppressed, and route it to a null queue. See here for an example.

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