[xquery-talk] search hit count

[Michael Kay]

>   The count() function give me how
>   many documents in which the search is found, but not the individual
>   hit count.

I suspect you did something like 

count($docs[x/y/z='hit'])

which would give you the number of $docs in which x/y/z='hit' is true.

Change this to

count($docs/x/y/z[.='hit'])

and you will get the number of z elements equal to 'hit'.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/