BAD MSG: to be designed around a single document, not a database. I guess what I am saying is that Xindice doesn't provide an api to update a specific document with xupdate. Tom/Kimbro said that I could update the entire document, but that seems a bit of overhead. Also, I have a client that is sending a change, why should the client have to send the entire document?
Tom/Kimbro have stated in the past that we shouldn't create one big document, that we should create a bunch of little documents. If I had one big document, then I wouldn't have this problem, because the absolute path would identify what should be updated. Since we have broken the one big document in pieces, it is now harder to identify which piece of the one big document should be changed. Don't get me wrong, I perfectly happy with not having one big document. I think Xindice is a great product! I was hoping for a way to specify which document I wanted updated. I can fix this by pre-appending everyone one of my documents by their key value and then my update path will be unique. Xindice already knows this, the api doesn't let me specify it. Sorry for the rant and the length :-) thanks, Mark Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > > From: Mark J. Stang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Kimbro/Tom/et. al., > > I haven't been able to figure out how to do an "and". > > What's the problem? > > "//account/customer/name/first[text()='Mark' and ../last='Stang']" > > Vadim > > > The only > > solution I can think of is to make the document key the root > > of my document. That way I can guarantee that my "select" > > will be unique. Does anyone have any other suggestions? > > Does everyone agree this is the only solution using "xupdate"? > > > > thanks, > > > > Mark > > > > "Mark J. Stang" wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I have been working with XUpdate and have a question. > > > If I use a select, such as > > > > > > "//account/customer/name/first[text()='Mark']" > > > > > > for an XUpdate, aren't I telling it to change every first name that > is > > > 'Mark' > > > to the new value. How do I specify a particular document, rather > than > > > all? > > > This seems to be a "global change". I could embed the key in the > > > document > > > but then I have to have a "select" AND "select". Is there someway > to > > > specify > > > a key to a document and its' path? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > Mark
