Hi John, thanks, I knew it would be something blindingly simple! cheers, Jakob.
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 17:26, John Snelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jakob, > > MarkLogic does implement the "except" operator. You can use it like this: > > collection("c1") except collection("c2") > > John > > On 09/05/11 16:03, Jakob Fix wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have two collections c1 and c2 of documents where c2 is a subset of >> c1, and I would like to get a sequence of all documents in c1 that are >> not in c2. I was hoping to use the except [1] operator for this, but >> MarkLogic does not seem to know it. >> >> Well, I just read [2] and there it says: " there is no requirement >> that implementations should actually provide these functions" [3]. If >> that is indeed the case, could you please tell me how I can get an >> equivalent functionality? By the way, I tried c1 - c2, and it doesn't >> work. >> >> thanks, >> Jakob. >> >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-except >> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions >> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#namespace-prefixes > > -- > John Snelson, Senior Engineer http://twitter.com/jpcs > MarkLogic Corporation http://www.marklogic.com > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
