Hi Chris, Yes, it looks like this approach may be more appropriate for my needs. After posting my request I found out that there is a need to support "custom" character encodings (during import and export) for characters that fall into the Unicode Private Use Area, otherwise I would try to use the xdmp:output options. Makes it interesting with no doubt!
You're 2 for 2 with describing viable solutions to some of my recent and custom requirements. Thanks! Tim M. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Hamlin Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 5:15 PM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to export XML to ASCII text with ISO encodings? Hi Tim, Maybe simplistic, but you could do it with a map:map and analyze-string. Search for entities on the way in and look up the names. Search for unicode char ranges that you want to convert on the way out, and look them up in the inversion of the map:map. Something like xquery version "1.0-ml"; declare namespace s = "http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";; declare function local:replace-hits-from-map ($in, $regex, $map) { fn:string-join (( let $checked := fn:analyze-string ($in, $regex) for $bit in $checked/* let $text := $bit/text() return if ($bit/self::s:non-match) then $text else map:get ($map, $text) ), '') }; let $conf := map:entry ('&rarrow;', '→') let $in := 'foo &rarrow; bar' let $imported := local:replace-hits-from-map ($in, '&[^;]+;', $conf) let $exported := local:replace-hits-from-map ($in, '[ÿ-]', -$conf) return ($in, $imported, $exported) You could serialize the map somewhere and deserialize it when needed. Of course it could get huge depending on how much of Unicode you need. When I had this it was just a case of people adding things as they needed them, and translating short strings. So I was OK just having obvious error checking and putting in the new mappings when they arose. - Chris _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
