[MarkLogic Dev General] RE: search:search options constraints

[Adam Patterson]

Hi, I'm a noob with XQuery and MarkLogic as well, but I've recently figured out how to do something along the lines of what you're after. I use the following options to search a TEI document and define the hits to be a particular node level inside the document:

<options xmlns="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search">

                <!-This restricts the search to a particular URI, otherwise you will get hits from every document in your database. -->
                <additional-query>{cts:document-query(/URI/to/the/document/I/want/to/search/document.xml)}</additional-query>

                <!-This searchable expression defines the level of my hits to the <div> tags in the body of my diary. -->
                <searchable-expression xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">{/tei:teiCorpus/tei:TEI[@xml:id=&quot;diary-ljb-1879-1881-1&quot;]/tei:text[@type=&quot;diary&quot;]/tei:body/tei:div}</searchable-expression>
</options>



You should try to set up your options with something like the following:

<options xmlns="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search">

                <additional-query>{cts:document-query(/URI/to/the/document/I/want/to/search/document.xml)}</additional-query>

                <searchable-expression xmlns:tei=http://www.my.namespace/ns/1.0>{//p[starts-with(ref:anchor/@id, "para_")]}</searchable-expression>

</options>

Good luck,

Adam


From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Steiner, David J. (LNG-DAY)
Sent: March 25, 2010 5:24 PM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] RE: search:search options constraints

Right, that's actually what I'm looking for - how to do what I want using the search API, not XPath.

From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Stewart Shelline
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:33 PM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] RE: search:search options constraints

Another way to do this is in the <additional-query> element of search:search. You can use it to build complex queries using any of the cts:query functions-assuming you have the appropriate indexes set up.

From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Keith L. Breinholt
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:34 PM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] RE: search:search options constraints

// p[starts-with(ref:anchor/@id, "para_")]/text[fn:contains( "sometext",  .)]

Keith L. Breinholt
breinholtkl at ldschurch.org<mailto:breinholtkl at ldschurch.org>

From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Steiner, David J. (LNG-DAY)
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:21 PM
To: general at developer.marklogic.com
Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] search:search options constraints

I have an XML structure like this:

...

                            <p xmlns="namespace1">

                                <ref:anchor id="para_2" xmlns:ref="namespace2"/>

                                <text>This is a bunch of text that I want to search.</text>

                            </p>

...

I want to search for words (multiple terms: word1 AND word2 AND word3) in the <text> element of the <p> elements where the <ref:anchor>@id starts with the string "para_".

<text> elements appear elsewhere and <p> elements do to...  and there are other types of id values, such as "subpara_..."

I'm trying to use search:search and I see how to constrain to a specific element or attribute (or collection, etc.), but how do you do more complex things - i.e., constrain to a specific element under a specific parent where a sibling's attribute starts with a particular string?

Hopefully I've been clear - the XPath of the element I want to search: // p[starts-with(ref:anchor/@id, "para_")]/text

Thanks,
David Steiner
Consulting Research Scientist
Global Architecture & Research iLabs
LexisNexis Group
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