Chris, Depending on the type of query you want to perform on those structures, it sounds more like a <word>, <value> or <range> constraint. One tutorial you might want to look at, in addition to those Mike lists below, is:
http://developer.marklogic.com/howto/tutorials/2009-07-search-api-walkthrough.xqy That has some information on the different constraint types and how they relate to the searches you want to perform. --Colleen ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Morgan [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 5:14 AM To: Michael Blakeley Cc: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Help with xQuery Syntax Thanks, Michael. After reading about the search API, it does seem like a simpler approach. So in order to perform a google-like search within any Sect1 or Sect2 in the structure below, I would use a collection constraint -- correct? Thanks again for your help. Chris On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Michael Blakeley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Chris, Why not use the higher-level search:search() API? The function reference page is http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/4.1/apidocs/SearchAPI.html#search:search The Search Developer's Guide (http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/4.1/books/search-dev-guide.pdf) has more about the high-level search API. If you need to use the lower-level cts:search() API for some reason, start with http://developer.marklogic.com/howto/tutorials/ and the "Paginated Search for Web Applications" tutorial. -- Mike On 2010-03-03 03:38, Chris Morgan wrote: Hello, I'm new to MarkLogic and am having trouble getting a search query to work properly. Specifically, I'm attempting to build a simple query of a DocBook style document. The structure of the document is as follows: <article> <sect1> <title>The first title</sect1> <para>a paragraph of text</para> <sect2> <title>The first title</sect1> <para>a paragraph of text</para> </sect2> </sect1> </article> My goal is to build a simple search tool that will search through all<sect1> and<sect2> elements and find any paragraph containing the search term. I'd like to return: <a href="somelink.xqy">Section Title</a> <p>Paragraph text with<span class="highlight">highlighted search term</span> in it.</p> The problem is that when I loop through the paragraphs containing the search term, I return every sect1 or sect2 title, regardless of whether that title contains para elements with the search term. Here's what I have so far: ======================================= xquery version "1.0-ml"; xdmp:set-response-content-type("text/html"), <html> <body> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="affect.css" /> </head> <div class="container"> <div class="topNav"> <form method="GET" action="searchtest3.xqy" id="searchForm"> <input type="hidden" name="start" id="start" value="1"/> <input type="text" name="search" size="43" maxlength="256" value=""/> <input type="submit" name="button" value="search"/> </form> </div> {let $searchTerm := xdmp:get-request-field("search") let $query := cts:query(<cts:word-query xmlns:cts="http://marklogic.com/cts";><cts:text>{$searchTerm}</cts:text></cts:word-query>) for $newresults in (//sect1|//sect2) where cts:contains(($newresults//para), $query) return <div> <a href="www.google.com<http://www.google.com><http://www.google.com>" class="searchResult">{$newresults/title/text()}</a> { for $para in $newresults/para where cts:contains($para, $query) return <p>{cts:highlight($para[1],$query,<span class="highlight">{$cts:text}</span>)}</p> } </div>} </div> </body> </html> ======================================= Thanks for your help! Chris _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
