Re: [Exist-open] xpath sequence for fn:collection() ?

[Gary L. <gar...@en...>]

> Assuming your predicate selects some document-nodes and 'root' is the
> name of the outermost-element...
> collection('/db/my-collection)/root[predicate][1]

I tried something like this but it returns the first /root of every doc in
the collection.

I ended up creating a sequence of doc IDs that matched with the predicate
and then used the first ID to select the doc.

Thanks,
gary



> 
> On 24/04/2008, at 3:32 AM, Gary Larsen wrote:
> 
> >
> > With XQuery I'm trying to find a single document in a collection
> > which matches some criteria:
> >
> >  collection('/db/my-collection)/root[predicate]
> >
> > Is there a sequence that I can use here like [1] or another way to
> > just get the first matching doc?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > gary
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