cool, thanks Danny, that seems solved then :) cheers, Jakob.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 23:43, Danny Sokolsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jakob, > > You can compare strings to be less than or greater than or equal just like > you can numbers. When strings are compared, they are compared based on their > collation. For example the following: > > xquery version "1.0-ml"; > declare default collation "http://marklogic.com/collation/";; > > "abc" > "a", > "abc" > "b" > > => > true > false > > So those buckets do not require only a single letter string. You can also > specify lots of different collation such as case-insensitive, > diacritic-insensitive, etc, etc. > > -Danny > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 2:32 PM > To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion > Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] A to Z buckets with search:search? > > Thanks Geert, for your reply. > > Your code example seems to imply that the title element would have to > contain exactly one letter which would be used to fill the different > buckets. This and more in-depth reading of the documentation for the > search:range element suggests that the most efficient way would be to > add a "start-letter" attribute (or element) for each document that > could be used. > > Another idea could possibly be the search:custom element but > documentation is a bit sparse. > > cheers, > Jakob. > > > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 21:22, Geert Josten <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Jakob, >> >> Not entirely sure, but I'd expect it to be quite similar to date buckets: >> >> <constraint name="title"> >> <range type="xs:string"> >> <element ns="" name="title"/> >> <bucket name="A" ge="A" lt="B">A</bucket> >> >> (untested) >> >> Kind regards, >> Geert >> >>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >>> Van: [email protected] [mailto:general- >>> [email protected]] Namens Jakob Fix >>> Verzonden: woensdag 7 maart 2012 17:21 >>> Aan: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion >>> Onderwerp: [MarkLogic Dev General] A to Z buckets with search:search? >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to (ab)use the search API to provide buckets for each letter >>> in the alphabet and in each bucket I'd like to have all those >>> documents whose titles start with that letter (let's assume >>> non-significant words such as "the" and "a" at the title's start have >>> been removed). What options would I have to use to achieve that using >>> search:search? >>> >>> thanks in advance, >>> Jakob. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
