[XQZone General] limiting server output

[McBeath, Darin W (ELS-AMS)]

Perhaps you have already considered the following ... 

$result[1 to 500]

I'm not aware of any 'built-ins' that would automatically limit the number
of nodes to return.  For the most part (with the exception of xdmp:estimate)
there is also no 'quick' way to count the possible number of nodes that
could be returned.  But, not all queries can leverage xdmp:estimate and you
also need to consider the impacts of your fragmentation strategy.

Darin.

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at xqzone.marklogic.com
[mailto:general-bounces at xqzone.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Howard Katz
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 1:59 PM
To: 'General XQZone Discussion'
Subject: [XQZone General] limiting server output

 Is there an approved way of setting a limit on server output? I don't want
somebody doing a //* dump on a huge database over the web for example. I'd
like to be able to limit a result sequence say to 500 or 1000 nodes or
whatever.

It looks like I can count the nodes myself before returning a prescribed
subset. If that capability is built-in tho, I've missed it.

Thanks,
Howard

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