I should have mentioned that I'm using 4.2-1

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg

On Nov 9, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Murray, Gregory wrote:

> I'm having a similar problem with facet counts when using 
> <searchable-expression>. After reading this thread, I'm afraid I still don't 
> understand how to circumvent the problem. When using <searchable-expression>, 
> it appears that the search results are constrained to that expression whereas 
> the facet counts are not. Is there a facet-related option to similarly 
> constrain a facet to an XPath expression? I've seen references to the 
> "fragment-frequency" option, but appears to have no effect in this context.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Greg
> 
> Gregory Murray
> Digital Library Application Developer
> Princeton Theological Seminary
> 
> 
> On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Michael Blakeley wrote:
> 
>> Will, if I can jump in.... I think your idea of using different QNames is 
>> the right way to look at it.
>> 
>> Facets are built from range indexes, and range indexes contain lists of 
>> values and fragment ids for a given QName. So if the query matches the 
>> fragment, the facet will show all the values in that fragment. In your case 
>> the fragment is the entire document, so you will see all the values in the 
>> matching documents, whether they occur under /doc or under /doc//cite. Now, 
>> you *could* create a fragment root on 'cite', but I think that would be 
>> counter-productive. It's better to use different QNames and have different 
>> range indexes.
>> 
>> So I think what you'd want to do is simply arrange for a different set of 
>> search options for doc vs cite, including both searchable expression and 
>> constraints. Testing for that could be as simple as a call to 
>> cts:contains($user-search, 'select:cite') before you call search:search(). 
>> Or if that might generate false positives, you could search:parse the user 
>> query and then look at the cts:query XML to see whether or not the parser 
>> found a select:cite term. If it did, then you can switch to the correct 
>> options before calling search:resolve.
>> 
>> -- Mike
>> 
>> On 18 Oct 2011, at 17:14 , Will Thompson wrote:
>> 
>>> Micah,
>>> 
>>> I think I may have explained poorly. This is essentially what I'm doing -- 
>>> Docs are, generally, like this:
>>> 
>>> <doc>
>>> <search-meta/>
>>> <p>...<cite><search-meta/></cite>...</p>
>>> <section>
>>> <p>...<cite><search-meta/></cite>...</p>
>>> ...
>>> </section>
>>> </doc>
>>> 
>>> Searches operate over //doc by default, but if you add the operator/state 
>>> "select:cite" it changes the searchable expression to //cite. The results 
>>> are correct, but the problem is that the facet counts appear to be for 
>>> *both* doc and cite metadata, and thus do not change when toggling 
>>> searchable-expressions via operator/state.
>>> 
>>> This won't make any sense to our users, who will expect the facet counts to 
>>> match what they think they're searching for.
>>> 
>>> -W
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] 
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micah Dubinko
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:56 PM
>>> To: General MarkLogic Developer Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to get different facet counts for 
>>> different searchable-expression in Search API
>>> 
>>> Hi Will,
>>> 
>>> Everything you want to search exists in document fragments (not properties) 
>>> right?
>>> 
>>> What would happen if you switched in a different searchable-expression via 
>>> operator and state? The combined query is taken into account by faceting, 
>>> but the searchable-expression is not.
>>> 
>>> -m
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Will Thompson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Our app has typically searched only document-type elements, but I recently 
>>>> added metadata to citation elements (contained within and scattered about 
>>>> document elements) so that they can be optionally searched using an 
>>>> operator. i.e.: "term1 term2 select:citations" The operator changes the 
>>>> searchable-expression and transform-results to search only citation 
>>>> elements and return citation-specific snippets.
>>>> 
>>>> However, I need the facet counts to reflect the search being performed - 
>>>> i.e.: only show estimates for document element direct-child metadata 
>>>> during normal search, and only for citations when that is toggled using 
>>>> the operator. 
>>>> 
>>>> My first thought was to use different names or namespace for the citation 
>>>> metadata and have the operator toggle a separate set of constraints 
>>>> associated with those names. But constraints are not supported children of 
>>>> search:state under search:operator.
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas on how to accomplish this with Search API? 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> -Will
>>>> 
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