[MarkLogic Dev General] cts:search question

[Mike Sokolov]

Mattio - The signature seems to imply you should be able to pass a 
sequence of  nodes using multiple paths by wrapping them in parens:

cts:search ((path1, path2, path3), ...)

you could also do multiple searches


Mattio Valentino wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still coming up to speed on XQuery and MarkLogic and I can't quite
> figure out something that I'm sure will be obvious once I hear the
> answer.
>
> The signature on cts:search() is
>
> cts:search(
> $expression as node()*,
> $query as cts:query?,
> [$options as xs:string*],
> [$quality-weight as xs:double]
> )  as  node()*
>
> Does "$expression as node()*" mean that I should be able to pass in
> more than one path so I can search more than one node?  I initially
> assumed so, but I can't figure out how to do it after trying several
> different ways.  After looking at the Shakespeare sample app I was
> able to build the query below, which works but seems a little awkward.
> Is there an easier way?
>
> let $ORIGINAL_QUERY := "test phrase"
> for $i in cts:search( //element()[self::chapter[not(descendant::entry)] |
>                                 self::div[not(descendant::entry)] |
>                                 self::entry |
>                                 self::section],
>                     cts:word-query(
>                                     $ORIGINAL_QUERY,
>                                     ("case-insensitive",
> "diacritic-insensitive")
>                                   )
>                   )
> return
> (: handle results sequence :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mattio
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