David, More than likely is due to how the word-queries are resolved and phrase-through elements defined on the database. By changing the namespace to html and assuming the database running the query use phrase throughs for spans resolves this issue. Remember that if the blue elements run before green then a boundary is created that causes the span to act as a word-boundary. By tweaking the query a bit and adding html namespaces, you see that it will resolve correctly against the "Documents" database. Please make sure you have phrase-throughs enabled on your database if you find the results don't come out as expected.
Another technique is to just put an anchor at the end of the term as an icon so that you don't get <a href/> overlaps So you could do something like this tmpdoc,cts:or-query($terms ! cts:word-query(.,"punctuation-sensitive")),($cts:text ,<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="person or thing" style="color:{$key}"></span>))) Here is the corrected code and results let $doc := <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies.[7] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.[8][9] Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful",[10] and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil".[11][12] In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), an office suite (Google Drive), and social networking (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS[13] for a specialized type of netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in production of its high-end Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012.[14] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.[15] The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world[16] and to process over one billion search requests[17] and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data each day.[18][19][20][21] In December 2012 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger.[22] Its market dominance has led to criticism over issues including copyright, censorship, and privacy.[23][24] </p> let $tmpdoc := $doc let $map := map:map() let $_ := ( map:put($map,"blue",("Google","Google Inc.","YouTube", "Stanford University","Motorola")), map:put($map,"red",("Larry Page","Sergey Brin")), map:put($map,"green",("Android","Chrome","Google+","Gmail")) ) let $highlight := for $key in map:keys($map) let $terms := map:get($map,$key) return xdmp:set($tmpdoc,cts:highlight($tmpdoc,cts:or-query($terms ! cts:word-query(.,"punctuation-sensitive")),<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; style="color:{$key}">{$cts:text}</span>)) return $tmpdoc [Returns] ...and social networking (<span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green">Google</span></span><span style="color:green">+</span>). _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
