Hi Alan,
I think your approach would work.
If you really want a dictionary of all of the words in the database,
however, this might be easier:
xdmp:save("c:/tmp/tmp.xml",
<dictionary>{"
",
for $x in cts:words()
return (
<word>{$x}</word>, "
")
}</dictionary>)
The spaces are in there so line breaks will appear between the terms.
This includes everything in the db, not just things starting with a-z
(not sure if that is what you want or not). I didn't try this on a
large data set, but I think it will work because it will just stream
everything out to the disk (assuming you don't run out of disk
space...).
Of course using the lexicon to create a dictionary means that all of the
words (including the misspelled ones) are put in the dictionary. So
maybe I am not reading the intent of your question correctly.
-Danny
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Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] building a dictionary from a word
lexicon
I'd like to build a dictionary file for use with the spelling module and
base that dictionary on words that appear in my word lexicon. So I want
to dump the contents of the lexicon to a file formatted according to the
spelling dictionary schema.
To do this, I'm thinking of running through the lexicon letter by letter
and constructing the spelling dictionary from the output.
for $i in cts:word-match("a*") [1 to 2000]
return
<word>{$i}</word>
Is this the best way to do this? I'm thinking that creating a
dictionary out of lexicons is probably a pretty common task and that my
approach seems cumbersome. I'm thinking also it would be great if you
could have the dictionary automatically update itself based on the
content of one or more word lexicons as new documents were added,
updated, and deleted in a database or databases.
Alan
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