lucene highlighting + jsf

[Tommi Vd]

Hi all,

I'm using lucene in my web app.
Now i want to highlight specific terms from my search result and i'm using the datatable with jsf for showing the results.

Now for the higlighting part i'm making a simpleHtmlFormatter:

  
SimpleHTMLFormatter formatter =
				new SimpleHTMLFormatter("<span class=\"highlight\">", 
				"</span>");
			Highlighter highlighter = new Highlighter(formatter, null);

And in css i give it a background-color yellow.

but in my webpage i get this result:

  ch01 <span class="highlight">java</span>  

So the problem is he prints the span instead of taking it as html...

jsp page:

   <h:dataTable value="#{searcher.results}" var="result" >
					<f:facet name="header">
       	 				<h:outputText value="Search results" />
					</f:facet>
					<h:column>
        				<f:facet name="header">
        					<h:outputText value="Title" />
        				</f:facet> 
             			<h:outputText value="#{result.title}"></h:outputText>
					</h:column>
					<h:column>
						<f:facet name="header">
							<h:outputText value="Author" />
						</f:facet>
						<h:outputText value="#{result.author}"></h:outputText>
					</h:column>
					<h:column>
						<f:facet name="header">
							<h:outputText value="Creation date" />
						</f:facet>
						<h:outputText value="#{result.date}"></h:outputText>
					</h:column>
				</h:dataTable> 

Can anyone help?

kind regards,
Thomas

[Ulf Dittmer]

  ch01 <span class="highlight">java</span>  

Isn't that exactly what the code should output?

How are you applying the CSS - are you sure the stylesheet is found, and that the proper spans are correctly selected by the rule for "highlight"?

[Tommi Vd]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:

  ch01 <span class="highlight">java</span>  

Isn't that exactly what the code should output?

How are you applying the CSS - are you sure the stylesheet is found, and that the proper spans are correctly selected by the rule for "highlight"?

yes its correct output,
BUT the problem is that he shows ch01 <span class="highlight">java</span> in the browser as text...

i put it in the outputText in the table as a property string from result object.