[xquery-talk] if statements within where clauses?

[Jonathan Robie]

Hi Cindy,

XQuery allows expressions to be combined very freely, and you can 
certainly use an if expression for conditional logic in a WHERE clause, 
as follows:

    ....
    where contains($text, $keyword)
      and if ($var ='all')
             $entries//classcode = $region
          else
             true()
 
I did not understand what you are trying to do well enough to know 
exactly what the query should look like.

Hope this helps!

Jonathan

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Cindy Girard wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have the following piece of code:
> ----------------------
> $hits :=
>   for $entries in collection($collctn)//tei.2
>     let $docname := concat($entries/@id, '.xml')
>     let $divs := $entries//div1
>     let $text := $entries/text
>     where contains($text, $keyword)
>       and $entries//classcode = $region
>       and $entries//classcode = $gender
>       and $entries//classcode = $race
>       and $entries/@type = $type
>                                                    
>     return
>       <doc>{$entries/@type, <ct>-</ct>}</doc>,
>
> ----------------------
>
> and I need to make each 'and $entries...' statement conditional
> (if the variable doesn't equal 'all' then it needs to be included,
> otherwise, it needs to be left off).
> I believe I need to use a concat() to do it, but I can't seem to get
> the syntax right.
>
> Should I put the entire hits variable into a concat()?
>
> (if it matters, I'm using berkelydbxml for this)
>
> Thanks,
> Cindy
>
> Cindy Girard
> clm6u at virginia.edu
>
>