That should just work.  We'll just take the string value of the node
and use that in the index.

//Mary

On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:33:56 -0700, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm not up to speed on some of the latest innovations and practices in  
> MarkLogic
> and rather than dig and try to figure it all out I figured I'd save a  
> little
> time and ask.  Here's what I would really like to do:
>
>
> Given mixed content such as:
>
>
> <full-name> <surname>James</surname>,  
> <first-name>John</first-name></full-name>
>
>
> I would like to create a range index on full-name, surname, and  
> first-name
> without having to create a separate full-name element that contains no
> sub-elements.  That way I can have and do the following things:
>
>
>
> 1.       Obtain a searchable lexicon of full-names for search purposes.
>
>
> 2.       Provide a master database and schema from which derivative  
> documents
> can be extracted uses less granular elements, in this case <full-name>  
> without
> <surname> and <first-name>, such that I can use an element range index on
> <full-name> in the master database to analyze and/or normalize any and  
> all
> variations of <full-name>.
>
>
> 3.       I can also further analyze aberrant <full-name> forms to develop
> enhanced parsing algorithms to obtain the surname and first-name (and  
> for that
> matter middle names, prefixes, and suffixes as would have it in a real  
> world
> scenario and not as in this limited example).
>
>
> Thanks for any help with this!
>
> Tim Meagher
>
>
>


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