Ok curious. Why ideally do you want to keep the quotes around "A \"Credit Crunch\"?",
But not "A Better World for All", Presumably the quotes are meaningful. If your goal is to simply remove the leading and trailing quotes, then you could do a regex like replace($result,'^"|"$','') then pass to xdmp:to-json ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lee Lead Engineer MarkLogic Corporation [email protected] Phone: +1 650-287-2531 Cell: +1 812-630-7622 www.marklogic.com This e-mail and any accompanying attachments are confidential. The information is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this e-mail communication by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately by returning this message to the sender and delete all copies. Thank you for your cooperation. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:general- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:57 AM > To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion > Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] search:suggest and xdmp:to-json and > jquery autocomplete not a perfect match? > > the thing is that sometimes the results are quoted, and sometimes they > aren't. experimentation shows that quotes are omitted when the result > is just a word (i.e. no spaces in between). see the lines marked *** > below: > > "Abbreviated Bibliography" > ***Abbreviations > "Abbreviations and acronyms" > "Abbreviations and Acronyms" > "Abkürzungen und Akronyme" > ***Abkürzungsverzeichnis > "Abonnés aux téléphones portables" > "About the authors" > > while I do know a way around it (as described earlier), it doesn't > seem satisfactory, and I was (am!) hoping that there is a simple > solution that I haven't seen. > > Jakob. > > > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 15:37, David Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > I haven't used search:suggest but if the results are already quoted (seems > strange to me - how is the inner " escaped ?) maybe you could just > > create the JSON array yourself with > > > > concat("[" , string-join($results,","),"]" ) > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > David Lee > > Lead Engineer > > MarkLogic Corporation > > [email protected] > > Phone: +1 650-287-2531 > > Cell: +1 812-630-7622 > > www.marklogic.com > > > > This e-mail and any accompanying attachments are confidential. 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Thank you for your cooperation. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:general- > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix > >> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:48 AM > >> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion > >> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] search:suggest and xdmp:to-json and > jquery > >> autocomplete not a perfect match? > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> a typical integration of search:suggest is to use it as the data > >> provider for, for example, the jquery autocomplete. > >> > >> using search:suggest I might get a sequence of strings: > >> > >> "A "Credit Crunch"?" > >> "A Avaliação dos Alunos" > >> "A Balancing Act" > >> "A Better World for All" > >> "A Bigger Picture" > >> > >> wrapping the search:suggest in xdmp:to-json gives me this: > >> > >> ["\"A \"Credit Crunch\"?\"", "\"A Avalia\u00E7\u00E3o dos Alunos\"", > >> "\"A Balancing Act\"", "\"A Better World for All\"", "\"A Bigger > >> Picture\""] > >> > >> I would very much like to see an option in xdmp:to-json that would not > >> wrap another set of quotes around each item; in a perfect world this > >> is the result I'd like to see: > >> > >> ["A \"Credit Crunch\"?", "A Avalia\u00E7\u00E3o dos Alunos", "A > >> Balancing Act", "A Better World for All", "A Bigger Picture"] > >> > >> So, is there an easier option than trimming via a nested > >> replace(replace()) the left and right quote marks (if they exist, > >> single results aren't apparently quoted) of each element in the > >> sequence, and then concat-ing and string-join-ing like this (not even > >> sure that would work): > >> > >> concat( > >> '["', > >> string-join( > >> search:suggest($term, $options, 5), '","' > >> ), > >> '"]'):) > >> > >> Right now the integration of jquery autocomplete and search:suggest > >> seems quite cumbersome (but I may overlook the obvious solution, for > >> sure!). > >> > >> Thanks for your advice, > >> 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
