[Exist-open] Question about exist:match

[Dale P. <gca...@gm...>]

I have looked through the forum and do not see any questions/response on
this.  My apologies if I overlooked something.

I have eXist 1.2.2 and have enabled the match-tagging-elements attribute of
the serializer element in the conf.xml file.  When I do a keyword search I
see the <exist:match> tags around the terms I put in my search.

The problem is that I can't use them for anything.  For example, I structure
my query so that I get back the elements with the keywords, but also several
levels up in order to be able to pull other information about the file.  So,
in my xQuery scripts I will have a variable which holds the search results,
$rec, and from it I can pull out information, such as:

let $date := $rec/header//did/unitdate;

or

let $class := $rec/ header//did/../@class

But if I try to focus on where my keyword hits are - lets say I was looking
in unittitle like:

$title := $rec/header//did/unittitle/match:exist

then I get nothing. Because $rec starts at higher level in the doc, it is
possible that this will give me many unittitles, but I only want the ones
with a match:exist.  To make the original evaluation focus only at the
unittitle level is also not satisfactory  I have also tried this using the
web start admin tool and the same results happen.    Any thoughts or
solutions would be most appreciated.  Thanks.


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Dale Patterson