Dan,

If I understand you right, you using PMID as unique key for your
documents.

If you retrieve your documents using your unique PMID you don't need any
index, do you?

Am I still on your track?

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Dan Barron wrote:

>I'm trying to create indexers for a database of journal citations. One of
>the fields is a unique identifier called PMID. This is stored at the
>xpath /MedlineCitation/PMID. However, in other parts of the document are
>references to other articles that also have a PMID tag (lower down in the
>hierarchy.)
>
>Now in the documentations, all the patterns seem to be simple element
>names. However, I don't want my PMID indexer to pickup the documents
>where PMID occurs elsewhere than directly under the root tag.
>
>So the question is, is this a valid pattern (/MedlineCitation/PMID)? Or
>do I have to use just PMID and filter out the unwanted records later? I
>tried using this pattern and when I add documents, the indexer does not
>grow, which seems to me to mean that something is wrong with the
>definition.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>dan
>
>
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regards

Heinrich
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