Hi Greg, If you want all prefixless searches to be scoped to a particular element, use the <term> configuration
<term> <default> <word> <element ns="" name="title"/> </word> </default> </term> I don't see a way to do exactly what you're looking for however. Charles On 12/04/2013 11:27 AM, Murray, Gregory wrote: > I'm using the Search API, where it's easy enough to set up a word constraint > for a given element and then use the key:value syntax to search only the > values of that element, like so: > > <constraint name="title"> > <word> > <element ns="http://example.com/ns"; name="title"/> > </word> > </constraint> > > Then you can search for title:whatever to find titles containing the word > "whatever". This works great, but it's cumbersome for multi-word searches. > For example, if I want titles containing both "sound" and "fury", I have to > search for this: > > title:sound title:fury > > It gets worse with situations like this: > > (title:encyclopedia OR title:dictionary) AND (title:music OR > title:musicology) > > Before I dig into trying to customize the search grammar or some such -- is > there an easier way to perform a word search while applying the *entire* > search expression only to a given element? > > Thanks, > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general -- Charles Greer Senior Engineer MarkLogic Corporation [email protected] Phone: +1 707 408 3277 www.marklogic.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
