It would be interesting if search:parse would be able to parse something like:
title:((encyclopedia OR dictionary) AND (music OR musicology)) That would make user-entered string searches even more powerful and concise. Not sure if Mike’s xqysp can handle this, but sound to me like it should be doable to build into ML’s search library. It would also allow to finally utilize passing multiple search terms to one cts:query call through the search library, as mentioned by David Ennis.. Cheers, Geert *Van:* [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] *Namens *Murray, Gregory *Verzonden:* vrijdag 6 december 2013 22:44 *Aan:* MarkLogic Developer Discussion *Onderwerp:* Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Easier word searches with constraint? Hi David, Thanks for the suggestions. I see what you mean about exploding and reconstructing the search terms. That's essentially what I'm doing now. I take something like (encyclopedia OR dictionary) AND (music OR musicology) tokenize it, and convert it to (title:encyclopedia OR title:dictionary) AND (title:music OR title:musicology) whenever the search needs to be constrained only to book titles. It just seems rather awkward. As for the programming language, the queries are set up using XQuery. In fact, it's a web application and all server-side logic is done in XQuery. Thanks, Greg On Dec 6, 2013, at 2:02 AM, David Ennis wrote: HI. Since there are soo many ways to search, I am sure you'll get back plenty of feedback. However, a few notes: If I understand what you want, then I believe the cts search items are more than robust - combination of and/or queries and field/element queries depending on how your constraints are set up. The important key here is that in most (if not all) instances of the $text parameter for these queries accept *one or more terms *as input and are treated as "any term matching". SO, you could have your terms in a sequence and pass this on as the values. something like this: let list1:= ("dictionary", "encyclopedia") let list2:= ("music", "musicology") return cts:search(cts:and-query( cts:element-value-query(xs:QName("title"), $list1), cts:element-value-query(xs:QName("title), $list2) )) This above will nto run as-is as you need to look at parameters for the settings and perhaps you are searching on a field, etc- but should give you a good primer on the begining ov building complex queries with CTS ########### Separately, as a programmer, I see the issue as manageable in your current use of the search:search approach. Building up your parameters and then exploding them into strings with the proper glue should give you some ease. What language are you preparing your queries in? Regards, David On 6 December 2013 00:49, Charles Greer <[email protected]> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
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