Ron,
The URI worked great. Thanks!
I tried using the xdmp:document-load() as you mentioned, but I'm still
struggling with the syntax and where to find the documentation. I downloaded
the entire documentation set, but I'm still finding my way around.
This is what I tried as I understood your suggestion:
xquery version "1.0-ml";
xdmp:document-load( "/C/software/MarkLogic Server/db/people/people.xml",
<options xmlns="xdmp:document-load">
<uri>/people</uri>
<format>xml</format>
</options> )
for $person in doc( "/people/people.xml" )/people/person
return (
<div>
$person/@name
<a href="delete.xqy?path={ xdmp:path($person) }">delete</a>
</div>
)
This is not correct syntax.
But with the URI replacement you gave me I am in business. Thanks.
Scott
________________________________
From: Ron Hitchens <[email protected]>
To: General MarkLogic Developer Discussion <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 5:09:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Working with loaded data
The name (actually the URI) of your document in
MarkLogic is "/C/software/MarkLogic Server/db/people/people.xml",
not simply "people.xml".
A collection of documents in MarkLogic is not a
disk-style filesystem, even though it can often be
treated that way. Whenever you reference a specific
document by name you need to provide the full and
complete URI. Think of document URIs as more like
hash keys than filenames.
Use the xdmp:document-load() function to load
a document and assign your preferred URI.
On Apr 3, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Scott wrote:
> I just downloaded MarkLogic Server 4.2 and have created a database and loaded
>some data. I'm brand new to this, so I have a basic question on how to
>specify
>a document to query.
>
> I followed this tutorial for setting up a new database with the Shakespeare
>data. But I'll go through a simple scenario of creating everything from
>scratch.
> • Create a new database called "people"
> • Create a new forest called "people", no data directory specified
> • Create a new HTTP App Server called "people", specify a root folder,
> port
>8012, selected database "people"
> • Copy the cq folder from the samples folder
> • Copy an xml file to the http server root called people.xml. Here is
> the
>contents:
> • <people>
> <person name="bob" />
> <person name="jim" />
> <person name="bob" />
> <person name="ryan" />
> </people>
>
> • I load the data using the load tab of the people database screen.
> • In CQ->explore, I see: /C/software/MarkLogic
> Server/db/people/people.xml
>– element people (properties) (no collections)
> • Now I can query this data:
> xquery version "1.0-ml";
> for $person in doc()/people/person
> return (
> <div>
> $person/@name
> <a href="delete.xqy?path={ xdmp:path($person) }">delete</a>
> </div>
> )
>
>
> There are some problems with this query that some research will help me to
>figure out--the results look like this:
>
>
> $person/@name delete
> $person/@name delete
> $person/@name delete
> $person/@name delete
>
>
> --but I'm getting the right number of results. My question is, how to I
> target
>a document by name?
>
>
> If I change the doc() call above to read doc( "people.xml" ), I get an emtpy
>return set in response. I need this to work because I have several xml files
>loaded into the database I'm trying to work with, and I want to be specific.
>
>
> Thanks for helping out!
>
>
> Scott
>
>
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