[MarkLogic Dev General] Restricting Search Hits To Immediate Parent Containers

[John Craft]

I am evaluating MarkLogic and have been playing around with the
cts:element-query() and cts:element-word-query() expressions.  So far, I
am having difficulty restricting search results to elements that are
direct parents of the elements that contain the search terms.

Our content is made up of nested <section> elements and most <section>
elements contain <p> elements, which are our containers for paragraph
text.  The <section> elements contain <title> elements and other
information as well.  When performing a search, I would like to limit
the results to only the <section> elements whose direct <p> children
contain search terms.  I began by creating the following cts:search()
string:

cts:search(fn:doc()//section, cts:element-query(xs:QName("section"),
cts:element-query(xs:QName("p"), "searchTerm") ))

This approach was flawed because the search results included <section>
elements that were further up the tree and didn't directly contain <p>
elements (or, rather, <p> elements that contained the search terms).

My next approach was to use cts:element-word-query() and create an
element-word-query-through for the <p> element:

cts:search(fn:doc()//section,
cts:element-word-query(xs:QName("section"), "searchTerm") )

Again, the search results contain <section> elements that aren't direct
parents of <p> elements that contain search terms.  The end result is
that I end up with a lot of <section> elements that are false positives.

I'm beginning to think the path information on the first cts:search()
argument may be the problem, but I'm not sure.  And if it is the
problem, how else can I get search results returned as <section>
elements

I appreciate any help or suggestions you can provide.

Thanks.

John Craft