I knew there'd be something simple I was missing. Thank you!
James On 15 Nov 2013, at 07:40, Alexander Holupirek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14.11.2013, at 20:39, James Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm doing some work matching between XML documents - one set has no >> characters outside the basic ASCII range while the other has a mix of of Ø >> and Ö and lots of others. Some are in UPPER case and some in Mixed. I need >> to match a "James" in one file to "JAMES" in another and so on. To do the >> comparisons I've been looking at BaseX's support for collations. >> >> Following the example in the documentation like this works perfectly: >> >> declare default collation 'http://basex.org/collation?strength=primary'; >> "Straße" = "Strasse", >> "Jérome" = "Jerome", >> "James" = "JAMES" >> >> But it doesn't work when testing attribute (or node) values in a statement >> like this: >> >> declare default collation 'http://basex.org/collation?strength=primary'; >> let $doc := doc(' >> <root> >> <test name="Straße">Straße</test> >> <test name="Strasse">Strasse</test> >> </root> >> ') >> return count($doc/root/test[@name = "Strasse"]) > > Applying @name/data() already helps: > > declare default collation 'http://basex.org/collation?strength=primary'; > let $doc := doc(' > <root> > <test name="Straße">Straße</test> > <test name="Strasse">Strasse</test> > </root> > ') > return count($doc/root/test[@name/data() = "Strasse"]) > -> 2 > >> I would expect that to return a count of 2 but it returns a count of 1. >> >> I can get round this by calling fn:compare() like this but it feels like a >> hack: >> >> declare default collation 'http://basex.org/collation?strength=primary'; >> let $doc := doc(' >> <root> >> <test name="Straße">Straße</test> >> <test name="Strasse">Strasse</test> >> </root> >> ') >> return count($doc/root/test[0=fn:compare(@name,"Strasse")]) >> >> Is this behaviour as intended? I can see that it might make query speed and >> indexes much better to ignore collation for = but I couldn't find it stated >> in the documentation. My quick read of the specification suggested that the >> operation of fn:compare would drive the behaviour of eq, gt, lt etc. >> >> I think that I'm probably doing this completely the wrong way and I should >> be using some of the other features of Full-Text but I'm not sure. If anyone >> can point me in the right direction I will be very grateful. >> >> Many thanks, James > > > > _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
