Re: [eXist-TEIXML] Encoding dates for use in range index

[Peter S. <st...@we...>]

Am 04.04.2013 um 23:02 schrieb Christopher Thomson <chr...@ca...>:

> I also wonder whether this might be a good use for the map datatype?
> 
> let $pub-dates :=
> map {
>         "id1" = 1938,
>         "id2" = 1975,
>         "id3" = 1989
>        }
> 
> Each id would be a <biblStruct> xml:id.  The resulting map would be large, so I don't know if this is viable or not. But an advantage would be having the map functions to manipulate / manage it.

That's probably a very elegant solution with XQuery 3.0. Additionally you could store the map in a cache object so you would only need to create it once -- after every reboot or cache:clear().

Best Peter

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