Specifying namespace for full text query

[ashok _]

I have xml documents which have a default namespace.

I have an XQuery script that runs a full text query on these documents.

Unfortunately I am having a problem with the syntax for prefixing the
namespace to the full text query :

I have the namespace declared like this :

declare namespace an = "http://www.akomantoso.org/1.0";

I have an array of collections which i want to run the search against :

let $search_scope :=
        (
                collection('/db/xmlcontent/debates')
                collection('/db/xmlcontent/documents')
        )

I build my search string like this :

let $search_string := concat('$search_scope', '//an:*[ft:query(.,
$search-for-this)]')

But this returns 0 results as I think the 'an' in the concat is being
treated like a string literal ...

I tried doing this instead :

let $search_string := concat('$search_scope', '//', an,
':*[ft:query(., $search-for-this)]')

But that returns an error ...

What is the right way to prefix the namespace for the above case ?

thanks in advance

Ashok

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[ashok _]

This syntax does not seem throw an error  :

let $an_nsdecl := 'declare namespace an="http://www.akomantoso.org/1.0"; '
.....
let $search_string := concat($an_nsdecl, '$search_scope' ,
'//an:*[ft:query(., $search-for-this)]')
let $hits := util:eval($search_string)

Unfortunately it doesnt return any results ... when i remove the
namespace entirely and also remove the default namespace from the
document ... the search works ...

What am i doing wrong ?

thanks

Ashok


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, ashok _ <listmanster@...> wrote:

> I have xml documents which have a default namespace.
>
> I have an XQuery script that runs a full text query on these documents.
>
> Unfortunately I am having a problem with the syntax for prefixing the
> namespace to the full text query :
>
> I have the namespace declared like this :
>
> declare namespace an = "http://www.akomantoso.org/1.0";
>
> I have an array of collections which i want to run the search against :
>
> let $search_scope :=
>        (
>                collection('/db/xmlcontent/debates')
>                collection('/db/xmlcontent/documents')
>        )
>
> I build my search string like this :
>
> let $search_string := concat('$search_scope', '//an:*[ft:query(.,
> $search-for-this)]')
>
> But this returns 0 results as I think the 'an' in the concat is being
> treated like a string literal ...
>
> I tried doing this instead :
>
> let $search_string := concat('$search_scope', '//', an,
> ':*[ft:query(., $search-for-this)]')
>
> But that returns an error ...
>
> What is the right way to prefix the namespace for the above case ?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Ashok
>

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[Adam Retter-3]

Just some syntax mistakes, I have added corrections -

> let $search_scope :=
>        (
>                collection('/db/xmlcontent/debates')
>                collection('/db/xmlcontent/documents')
>        )

let $search_scope := '
        (
                collection('/db/xmlcontent/debates'),
                collection('/db/xmlcontent/documents')
        )'

NOTE - the comma between the collection functions and the quotes


> I build my search string like this :
>
> let $search_string := concat('$search_scope', '//an:*[ft:query(.,
> $search-for-this)]')

let $search_string := concat($search_scope, '//an:*[ft:query(., '
$search-for-this, ')]')

NOTE the changes to the quotes




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