Re: [Exist-open] Full-text Search in CDATA field

[Mike S. <so...@if...>]

It looks as if you just need to query the document element; what's the 
query you're trying that's failing, and what indexes do you have defined?

-Mike

Zac Marsh wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> The following is a snippet from the XML we are consuming. When using
> XQuery to do a full-text search within the CDATA section, eXist does
> not return results.
>
> <docset>
> <document><![CDATA[
> Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy returned to growth in the
> third quarter after a yearlong contraction as government incentives
> spurred consumers to spend more on homes and cars.
>
> The world’s largest economy expanded at a 3.5 percent pace from July
> through September, figures from the Commerce Department showed today
> in Washington. Household purchases climbed 3.4 percent, the most in
> two years.
> ]]>
> </document>
> <docTitle/>
> </docset>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Mike Sokolov <so...@if...> wrote:
>   
>> I think the thread you referenced dealt with CDATA in a pretty definitive
>> way: basically, indexes are created for elements and attributes: CDATA is
>> neither - it's just a special kind of text, so to speak, so its contents are
>> only indexed as part of any (indexed) element that contains it.  Changing
>> that would break other things, so it's not likely to change.
>>
>> It's possible that if you post some of your content and describe the
>> intended query behaviour, that readers of the list would be able to propose
>> a workable solution for you.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>> Zac Marsh wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was trying to conduct a XQuery full-text search within a CDATA field
>>> - via both Lucene and the built-in full-text configurations.
>>> Apparently it did not work.
>>>
>>> After searching the mail archive, I found the following thread:
>>>
>>> http://exist-open.markmail.org/search/?q=cdata+full-text#query:cdata%20full-text+page:1+mid:l5b2k2nmd7j5xpzq+state:results
>>>
>>> Is it still the case? I understand CDATA was intended for comments.
>>> But in the XML files we have to consume, a lot of CDATA fields were
>>> used to convey useful information(needed to be escaped otherwise). I'd
>>> like to know any alternatives that does full-text XQuery within CDATA
>>> sections.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Zac
>>>
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