Hi David,

Is there now a class that provides these ranges ?

Regards,
Danny

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:16 AM, David Lee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quite an interesting question that I'm supprised I've never heard ask
> before.****
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> I found this ****
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> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.db2.xquery.doc%2Fdoc%2Fxqrnumrng.htm
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> But that's DB2 specific.****
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> I couldn't find anything in XQuery that supplies these magic numbers, and
> the specs are intentionally vague about the range of int and integer etc.*
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> Even tried****
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> -1 cast as xs:unsignedInteger****
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> but no go ( Damn typed languages )****
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> I think we should support a class that provides these ranges ... ****
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>  but in the mean time pick something "really big" :)****
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> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Danny Sinang
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:10 AM
> *To:* MarkLogic Developer Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to get max value in ML****
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> Hi Geert,****
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> Thanks.****
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> Yes, you have a good point there. Returning all those results will be
> inefficient.****
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> But I'll be forcing the users to limit the results by date instead and
> we'll be imposing a maximum date range.****
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> I just need to make sure search:search() returns all the results because
> I'm feeding the entire result set to a function that computes for some
> aggregate values.****
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> Regards,
> Danny****
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> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Geert Josten <[email protected]>
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> Hi Danny,****
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>  ****
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> There is no pre-declared constant as far as I know if that is what you
> mean. But I’m sure it follows the specs of the XML Schema standard.****
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> Are you sure you want search:search to return so many results in one call?
> It is memory in-efficient, and showing so many results in for instance in a
> browser is likely to choke the browser. If you’d use a crawler that
> supports parallel threads, you’d see that a page size of something like 100
> to 500 would work much better..****
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> Kind regards,****
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> Geert****
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> *Verzonden:* dinsdag 8 mei 2012 15:58
> *Aan:* MarkLogic Developer Discussion
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to get max value in ML****
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> Hi Geert,****
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> I'm trying to get the maximum unsigned long value to tell seach:search()
> to return all results.****
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> I was hoping there would be an ML function out there that would tell me
> the max unsigned long value.****
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> Regards,****
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> Danny****
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> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Geert Josten <[email protected]>
> wrote:****
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> Hi Danny,****
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> Can you elaborate on what you exactly mean? Given a sequence, you can just
> use fn:max() to get the highest value. If you want to determine the highest
> value that occurs anywhere in the database, you can use cts:values with a
> descending order and limit of 1. The first and single result is the
> highest..****
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> Kind regards,****
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> Geert****
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> *Van:* [email protected] [mailto:
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> *Verzonden:* dinsdag 8 mei 2012 15:49
> *Aan:* general
> *Onderwerp:* [MarkLogic Dev General] How to get max value in ML****
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>  ****
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> Hi,****
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> Is there a function in ML that returns the maximum values for integer and
> unsigned long ?****
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> Regards,
> Danny****
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