[xquery-talk] making a search case-insensitive

[Cindy Girard]

Thanks, Michael.

contains(upper-case($text), upper-case($keyword))

worked great!



MK> The correct way to do this is to search using a caseblind collation, but
MK> I've no idea whether that's a feature that your product supports. 

MK> $keyword and upper-case($keyword) are both strings; you can't apply the "or"
MK> operator to two strings, it works only with boolean operands. So "$keyword
MK> or upper-case($keyword)" will give you a type error.

MK> Similarly, te contains() function tests whether one string is a substring of
MK> another. I suspect when you write contains($text, $kwds) you are imagining
MK> that $kwds is a set of strings and that the function will return true if
MK> $text contains any of them.

MK> So:

MK> (a) to make $kwds be a set (sequence) of strings, do

MK> $kwds := ($keyword, upper-case($keyword),
MK> lower-case($keyword), $mixedkwd)

MK> (b) to test if $text contains any of them, do

MK> some $k in $kwds satisfies contains($text, $k)

MK> But wouldn't it be easier simply to test

MK> contains(upper-case($text), upper-case($keyword))

MK> ?

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

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at xquery.com 
>> [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of Cindy Girard
>> Sent: 27 July 2006 02:18
>> To: talk at xquery.com
>> Subject: [xquery-talk] making a search case-insensitive
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>   I'm using Berkely XMLDB as my search database for one of my
>>   projects, and I can't seem to find anything that allows me to
>>   specify if I want the search case-sensitive or not. And it's
>>   case-sensitive by default.
>> 
>>   Well, I need it to be case-insensitive, so I'm trying to do it in
>>   the xquery instead.
>> 
>>   I have the following snippet:
>> 
>>  let $mixedkwd := (concat (upper-case(substring($keyword, 1, 
>> 1)), lower-case(substring($keyword, 2)))),
>>      $kwds := ($keyword or upper-case($keyword) or 
>> lower-case($keyword) or $mixedkwd),
>> 
>>      $hits :=
>>            for $entries in collection($collctn)//tei.2
>>                                          let $docname := 
>> concat($entries/@id, '.xml')
>>                                          let $text := $entries/text
>>                                          where contains($text, $kwds)
>>      
>> 
>>                                          
>> 
>>    I'm getting an ItemType matching failed error. Can someone correct
>>    my syntax, or is there a better way to do this?
>> 
>>    Thanks,
>>   
>> -----
>> - Cindy  
>> 
>> Cynthia M. Girard
>> IATH, University of Virginia
>> clm6u at virginia.edu
>> 
>> "Danger? I laugh in the face of danger!
>> ...and then I hide until it goes away."
>> 
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- Cindy