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Bug 3746 - [FT] Description of FTStemOption
Summary: [FT] Description of FTStemOption
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Full Text 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Working drafts
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mary Holstege
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2006-09-18 19:53 UTC by Mary Holstege
Modified: 2006-11-01 17:50 UTC (History)
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Description Mary Holstege 2006-09-18 19:53:58 UTC 
== 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.
Comment 1 Jochen Doerre 2006-11-01 01:11:47 UTC 
Done as proposed in CVS.